Word: editor
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When questioned concerning some of the more important questions which were raised at the conference Professor Wilson quoted from an article which appeared in the New Republic on October 5, by Herbert Croly, editor of that magazine. "A case in point was the attitude of the conference toward the question of feeding the inhabitants of an island like Japan, who are increasing at the rate of almost 900,000 a year and who cannot, because of the policy of other Pacific nations, export in sufficient quantities either population or goods. The conference did not, of course, explicitly recommend...
Darvall, who is 21 years of age, prepared for the University of Reading at Dover College, where he took part in debating for four years, was an editor of the school magazine. "The Dovorian," and played Rugby football and hockey in addition to swimming on his college team. In 1923 Darvall entered the University College of Reading, and was Secretary of his hall debating club in his first year. Darvall, who is a Liberal, founded a political club, and when in 1925, he became Secretary of the Debating Society, he was nominated for the Imperial Debating Team. At the same...
Died. Octavus Cohen, 68, famed editor, lawyer, father of Author Octavus Roy Cohen; in Charleston...
...week the University of Toronto, province of Ontario, celebrated its centenary. Twenty-seven persons received honorary degrees, among them: Charles Vincent Massey, Canadian Minister to the U. S.; George Howard Ferguson, Premier of Ontario; Stephen Leacock, economist & humorist; Frederick Paul Keppel, President of the Carnegie Foundation; John Huston Finley, editor of of New York Times; Dr. Livingston Farrand, President of Cornell University; Ellen Fitz Pendleton, President of Wellesley College; Henry M. Tory, President of the University of Alberta; Richard W. Livingston, President & Vice Chancellor of Queens University, Belfast...
Although there is nothing vital in the book it is pleasant enough reading. There is the hardworking editor of the Banner, very devoted to his wife. Her uncle owns the Banner and of course she has the money. A dark, handsome chap, her childhood lover, appears suddenly, conducts himself in a manner to provoke scandalous gossip, succeeds in compromising the lady, and turns out to be the villain who robs ignorant foreigners of their hoarded pennies. A "hometown" girl furnishes the aristocratic flavor. Having eloped with an impoverished Russian count, she returns to air her sophistications and provide limitless material...