Word: chosen
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Second Empire fell, young Dr. Clemenceau?for like his father, grandfather and great-grandfather he was an M.D.?seized every toehold to scramble up in the third republic. Poor patients helped to get their medico chosen Mayor of disreputable Montmartre, later a deputy to the National Assembly. In 1880 he founded La Justice, first of the string of Clemenceau news sheets which really made his fame. As leader of the extreme left radicals he became "the wrecker of cabinets"?is said to have clawed down 18 prime ministers...
Dunster House, under Professor Greenough, will contain 110 single suites and 62 double suites. It will have a library, in the center of the House, facing the river and main court. This will hold at the beginning, about 5000 volumes carefully chosen from all fields of study in which students are interested. It is expected that practically all the books ordinarily used in tutorial work or in work outside of classes will be included, and, in addition, standard reference works and books for general reading...
...inscribed on a permanent class trophy, play against the winning Yale class team and in case of victory over Yale, receive medals. This fall the winning Sophomores who defeated the Yale Seniors at New Haven 26-0 are very proud with all these honors. In addition they have been chosen by J. L. Knox, coach of the Second Varsity, to demonstrate Holy Cross and Yale plays for the Varsity team...
...Benedict '23, dean of the Sophomore class, has been chosen chairman of the Committee on Information to Undergraduates for the year 1929-30. The primary purpose of this group is to give information to Seniors as to the whereabouts and opportunities of the various Harvard clubs scattered throughout the country. It plans to make the clubs more available to members of graduating classes, thus forming a stronger bond between them and older Harvard alumni...
...Junior at Amherst, he was troubled by his father's business failure, but got himself an assistant instructorship in public speaking and worked his way through his Senior year. In Chicago, where he went to work (for $10 weekly) for Western Electric, he found that his address, chosen for cheapness, excited criticism; further discovered that he had innocently selected a room in one of the Loop's worst dives. Solution: He moved, paid more rent, still made his $10 serve. In 1907 came a really major trouble. Summoned to Manhattan to be assistant to the president of Trust...