Word: directorate
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Reisner has led a long and varied life of studies and investigations, having to do especially with Egyptology and related subjects. After studying courses in the Semetic languages in the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, he became Hearst lecturer in Egyptology and director of the Hearst Egyptian expedition from the University of California from 1899 to 1905; professor of Egyptology since 1914, he has also directed the Egyptian expedition of Harvard and Boston Museum of Fine Arts since 1905, he was director of the Harvard Palestinian Expedition, conducting excavations at Samaria, 1907-10. Besides being archaeologist in charge...
Catchings. Many is the financier who numbers his directorates in dozens. Mr. J. A. Mange, of No. 33 Liberty St. is a director of 104 corporations, from Argosino Electric Plant, Inc. to Yough Manor Mining Co. But there are not many men on the street who are directors of 29 well-known corporations. Such a financier is Waddill Catchings, potent Goldman Sachs partner, whose 29 directorates include B. F. Goodrich Co., Warner Bros. Pictures, Inc., Postum Co., Cluett, Peabody...
...many cases he is not only a director in name but also in active fact. Thus, of Continental Can he is chairman of the executive committee, besides being its most famed student of economics. To add the problems of bottles to the problems of cans will be, for him, no extraordinary feat...
Another thing that made journalists snort at Columbia last week was the annual report of Dr. John William Cunliffe, director of Columbia's School of Journalism. Wrote he: "Reporting and copy-reading (if the terms are strictly interpreted) are young men's jobs and most of those engaged in them get out into executive or editorial positions as soon as they can; very few wish to stay as reporters or copyreaders all their lives; the strain is too great...
...Adam Leroy Jones, Columbia's Director of Admissions, had scanned the 1928 rolls of 216 representative colleges, reported that there was only a 2% student increase over the previous year. In 101 of the institutions having fewer than 500 students there had been a distinct decline. In the larger colleges (those of 3,000 and more), he found a less appreciable wane but in 22 scattered States fewer students were at college in 1928 than...