Word: director
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...served as Assistant Commissioner of Corporations at Washington, taking a prominent part at that time in investigations of the Trusts. He was also active in conducting the government suits which resulted in the demolition of the Standard Oil and Tobacco Trusts. From 1910 to 1913, he was director of the Census, resigning on the advent of the present administration. His lectures will be open to the public...
...Daily Princetonian has it that Harvard is yielding to the "shibboleth of commercialized undergraduate activities:" This is due to an unfortunate interpretation of a discussion held at a social service conference in Brooks House some time ago. There Mr. Philip Davis, director of the Civic Service House, Boston, suggested that social service work be credited toward a degree by the Faculty. The proposition was at once voted down by the undergraduates present, and there is no more likelihood of its being entertained here than that the work of managers will be recognized. Entirely aside from the point made...
...director of the University Library and Chairman of the Council of the College Library has just submitted his annual report covering the year, July 1, 1912, to June...
...most important and thoroughly discussed plans was offered by Mr. Philip Davis, director of the Civic Service House, Boston, who suggested that men who do social service work, especially of an educational nature, should receive credit in courses in the University. For instance, men who teach English should be credited by the English Department; men who do general educational work should be given recognition in the Educational Department; and likewise in Social Ethics, in Economics and in Sociology. Mr. Davis declared that the efforts of several hundred Harvard students to better social conditions should not go unrecognized by the Faculty...
Samuel W. McCall, former congressman from Massachusetts, and Walter I. Badger, a Boston and Maine, have been chosen as judges of the debate between Harvard and Princeton to be held in Sanders Theatre on March 27. Professor E. H. Warren '95 of the Law School will act as director of the debate...