Word: confirmation
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...John T. Axton, Chief of Army Chaplains, was retired as of next April. Secretary of War Davis wrote him a letter expressing regret that he had been found "physically incapacitated for active duty." To succeed Col. Axton, who is a 57-year-old Congregationalist, the Senate was asked to confirm Lieutenant Colonel Edmund P. Easterbrook, 62-year-old Methodist Episcopalian. Chagrined, Col. Axton announced that he would join the staff of Rutgers University (New Brunswick, N. J.). The chief of Chaplains will become College Chaplain...
Professor Clark's statement of the general educational ideas of President Mason of Chicago, and his comment upon the recent and more established innovations at Harvard only confirm the general belief that there is a tendency in American education which is rapidly changing into a purpose. Modelled after the German universities, American colleges are breaking from the mould--tending not to an imitation of the English or any other type, but borrowing what seems good and inventing what seems better. The present generation of undergraduates is, so to speak serving as a test case in many laboratories; that the experimenters...
...Overwhelming presumptuousness . . . crazy sensationalism. . . . She has done her share to confirm her countrymen in the idea?if that were possible?that the American girl is the supreme effort of creation"?Zwölf Uhr Blatt (Berlin...
...suggestions to the letter--he's usually been sorry afterward--so I hope that three of those five touchdowns will be made by the Crimson-jerseyed hosts. I should like to see the score Harvard 20, Dartmouth 14, I suggested as much to the stars, but they refused to confirm my suggestion definitely. But even the stars don't lightly run afoul of a Forecast in anger, and I promise severe astronomical disturbances if they fail me this afternoon and give all those five touchdowns to the Big Green...
Common Gossip Sirs: It is common gossip in Cleveland that you have moved your editors from here and your rather shifty and evasive reference to "Editorial Mail" in recent issues seems to confirm this fact...