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...August afternoon in 1870, in St. Clement's College at Metz, a serious dark-eyed boy was taking examinations for the Ecole Polytechnique, government military school at Paris. The professor of French composition, trembling with emotion, scrawled on the blackboard: "Develop this thought of Kléber's:? 'It is essential that the young train their faculties.' " Through the open window Student Ferdinand Foch heard the distant booming of Prussian cannon. He never forgot that afternoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Apologia | 3/30/1931 | See Source »

...Wednesday, April 1 all essays for the $500 Percival Wood prize must be handed in. This competition is open to students in the Junior and Senior classes of 18 New England universities, including Harvard. It was established by the will of the late Governor Percival Wood Clement, of Vermont, and is given for the best thesis in support of the principles of the Constitution of the United States and the first ten amendments. The judges will be the presidents of Amherst College, Bates and Brown University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PERCIVAL CLEMENT WOOD AND BALDWIN PRIZES ANNOUNCED | 3/18/1931 | See Source »

...finance it. He got several sport-loving businessmen of his own kind -Vincent Bendix, John F. Jelke, Jr., Vice President B. A. Massee of Colgate-Palmolive-Peet, Grain Trader James Norris- to go on the board. People like Jack Mitchell (Lolita Armour's husband) and Clement Studebaker, as well as most directors, bought stock...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Chicago Circus | 3/9/1931 | See Source »

...name of the men competing for the Boylston and Lee Wade prizes are: W.S. Baskerville, Jr. '32, J. J. Beaumont, H.33, T.R. Berner '31, J. C. Borden '31, R. N. Clark, Jr. '32, R. B. Clement '33, D. I. Cooke '31, R. R. Daly '33, J. B. Dolan '33, D. B. Edmonton '32, C. F. Elliott '31, R. S. Fitzgerald '33, H. C. Friend '31, A. B. Gardiner, III '33, J. B. Gilbert '33, G. A. Gullete '33, R. M. Hatch '33, R. L. Hoguet, Jr. '31, Arnold Isenberg '32, Samuel Kunen '31, G. E. Lodgen '32, T. I. Moran...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: TWENTY-EIGHT MEN IN SPEAKING CONTEST | 3/4/1931 | See Source »

...Belmont Hill 3. Goals--Wadsworth. Walcott. Gilmore. Gleason. S. Bacon. Dewey. Foster. Braggiotti. and Holmes. Referees--Joe Boley. Frank Mooney. Time--Three 12-minute periods. SECONDS BELMONT HILL Walcott. Wadsworth. Bragiotti. l.w. r.w., Holmes. E. Emerson Gilmore. Mays. c. c., R. Bacon, Dewey Foster. McCaffrey. r.w. l.w., F. Bacon. Clement David. Bacon. I.d. r.d., Pond MacGregor. Gleason. r.d. l.d., Chadwick Hale, g. g., A. Emerson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SECONDS AND 1934 TEAMS WIN | 1/8/1931 | See Source »

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