Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tribe but (previously) to the missionary who converted him, Jens Olsen. Danish Jens Olsen naturally considered that after Kudlooktoo's public confession no secrecy attached to what he had confessed in private. Soon famed Danish explorer Knud Rasmussen knew all about it. He told Dr. Isaiah Bowman, director of the American Geographical Society in New York. For a year and more the secret has been leaking out among explorers that Professor Ross G. Marvin of Cornell, one of Admiral Peary's most trusted Arctic lieutenants, was murdered by the Eskimo Kudlooktoo...
Several weeks last summer Engineer George Albert Soper, managing director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer, loped about Europe with a bundle of banknotes in his hand. In certain capitals he stopped to search out a professor eminent for cancer researches and to invite the personage to a first International Symposium on Cancer Control to be held at Lake Mohonk, N. Y. If, as did happen, the man he wanted hesitated over the expenses of a trans-atlantic voyage, Dr. Soper (he is a doctor of philosophy) was prepared to press expense money upon...
...Francisco Grand Opera Association, well scrubbed politically and artistically, gave last week in the Civic Auditorium the first of twelve performances that will make up its fourth annual season. Martha was the happy choice, had worthy treatment by the imported principals, the domestic chorus. All praise went to Musical Director Gaetano Merola who conducted. Otto H. Kahn was there, guest of Robert I. Bentley, head of the local organization, spoke, as is his wont, said in effect what he has said many times before, that the time will come before long when great and now frequently wasted U. S. opera...
...Geneva squad of 24 players, in charge of Coach McMillin and Mr. Edgecomb, Graduate Director of Athletics arrived in Boston yesterday morning and went immediately to the Lenox hotel where the Pennsylvania team is making its headquarters during its stay...
Officers of the band for the coming year are: Ambrose Francis Keeley '27, of Fall River, Director; Robert Thornton Smith '27, of Saco, Me,; President; Randolph Piper '27, of Lexington, Manager: Charles Philip Englehardt '28, Secretary; Samuel Ganz '28, Treasurer; and Louis Burton Benjamin '29, Librarian. Contrary to the practice of the Harvard University Band Club in previous years, members will be elected at the close of the football season instead of in the spring. The members of Band Club are chosen on the basis of their work during the past season...