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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...spite of the unusual nature of the main item on the business of the meeting there was found time to hold the annual election of officers. G. W. Harrington '30 was chosen president of the Council for the coming year. J. K. Hurd '30 was elected vice-president, and S. G. Silverman '30 was chosen secretary...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATERS WITHDRAW FROM COLLEGE LEAGUE | 5/10/1929 | See Source »

...election of new members to Delta Sigma Rho, the honorary debating society, was also announced last night. The following were chosen: G. W. Harrington '30, J. L. Harding '30, Norman Winer '29, J. K. Hurd '30, P. J. W. Bove '29, Celian Ufford '19 and S. G. Silverman...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DEBATERS WITHDRAW FROM COLLEGE LEAGUE | 5/10/1929 | See Source »

...born 57 years ago in Chesterfield, N. H. At Amherst College he studied science, was called "Doc" and chosen class president. Sabrina, Amherst's famed 350-lb. "goddess" statue, was stolen from the class of '93 for the '94 class dinner. Afterwards, "Doc" Stone helped sneak Sabrina to the barn of Herman C. Harvey, back in Chesterfield, there to hide her away under the floor from Calvin Coolidge's class. Agnes Harvey, Mr. Harvey's daughter, was a discreet girl. She could keep the secret of Sabrina. "Doc" Stone married...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Supreme Matters | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

Only two Chief Justices were promoted from the bench. To one of these, John Rutledge of South Carolina, chosen by President Washington to succeed John Jay, the Senate refused confirmation and he had to resign. Jefferson observed sarcastically to Monroe that Washington's purpose had apparently been "to keep five mouths always gaping for one sugar plum."* But in 1910, when President Taft successfully elevated Edward Douglass White, the precedent was broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: JUDICIARY: Supreme Matters | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

...great ambitions for the future growth. . . ." For something to talk about, he said he "wondered" how he would feel about having co-eds under his charge. He expressed no alarm when he learned that his new charges had recently held a vote to determine their "MOST BEAUTIFUL MALE," had chosen pompadoured Captain Virgil Gist, of the University basketball team...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Age Ignored | 5/6/1929 | See Source »

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