Word: discussing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week in Washington the commission met for two days to discuss means of attacking its problem. Under its young leader, F. Trubee Davison, son of the late President of the Red Cross and partner of J. P. Morgan, the commission has tried to recruit to its ranks men of prominence, men of ability and men with zeal to make a genuine effort for crime prevention. How well it has succeeded its roster shows: Herbert S. Hadley, former Governor of Missouri and onetime candidate for Vice President; Newton D. Baker, former Secretary of War; Charles E. Hughes, recent Secretary...
...Harvard's attitude toward all schoolboys, not merely athletes, has generally been one of indifference. Harvard men seldom return to their preparatory schools to discuss with the boys their choice of college. This Committee suggests that small groups of Harvard men, both graduates and undergraduates be selected to visit their respective schools in the spring and talk at arranged meetings with all boys who are interested in going to Harvard...
...Union, all the members of the Club also being in the membership of that institution. At these luncheons, the 35 or more men in the Chancery are enabled to meet socially. In addition, various members of the Faculty are often invited to speak to the men and discuss legal problems informally with them...
...came the proposal from Henry James '99, Chairman of the Overseers' Committee for Visiting Harvard College, that a group similar to the one advocated by President Lowell, be picked to meet the Board for dinner at the Harvard Club of Boston on the night preceding the regular sessions, to discuss with the members, matters connected with the College. Both suggestions have been taken and two undergraduate groups have been selected to meet with the Overseers...
...fortune when Australia did nobly by its Nell. But there are anecdotes, many of them priceless, gossipy friendly ones, about such famed folk as Sarah Bernhardt, who coached her Marguerite; Wilhelm Hohenzollern, who flicked his fin gers and the Empress followed; King Edward VII, who felt obliged to discuss affairs of state all through her singing; Oscar Wilde, the last time she saw him a "tall, shabby man, his collar turned up to his neck," who stopped her on a Paris street to ask for money; Ellen Terry, Charlie Chaplin, Anton Rubinstein, Lord Northcliffe, Jean de Reszke, Nellie Melba...