Word: electable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Synod House adjoining the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Manhattan, went last week some three score of the 138 Bishops of the Protestant Episcopal Church. They were called there by Presiding Bishop John Gardner Murray (Maryland) to elect two peers. Vacancies had occurred upon the resignations of Bishop William Lawrence of Massachusetts and Missionary Bishop Theodore P. Thurston of the District of Oklahoma. Before the House of Bishops convened, a third resignation unexpectedly arrived, from Missionary Bishop Nathaniel Seymour Thomas of the District of Wyoming, who said he wanted to "articulate the theological equipment of the students with modern...
...Woman's Democratic Club of New York City, of which the 1,700 members, like their civic sisters the country over, are dedicated to making politics "cleaner" and more reasonable, tried lately to elect a president. A Mrs. John Marshall Gallagher was a candidate. A Mrs. Hanna V. Imhof-despite gossip that she had said she would not have the presidency, even "on a silver platter"-was another...
...sanitary chemistry, and industrial chemistry. In addition, three five-year programs are regularly offered which combine the four-year program in mechanical, or electrical, or civil engineering with studies to the extent of six courses in the Graduate School of Business Administration. About one-seventh of the undergraduates regularly elect the five-year combined programs. Instruction in the departments of metallurgy and sanitary engineering, in so far as degrees are concerned, is now wholly on a graduate basis; but both departments give considerable instruction to students registered in other departments of the School...
...record would fall on the shoulders of three Harvard undergraduates if the H. A. A. is unable to find competitors outside of the University. The three men are E. C. Haggerty '27, captain of the track team and intercollegiate mile champion, J. L. Reid '29, captain elect of the cross-country team, and Lesile Flaskman...
...ignorant of our writers, but have profound respect for a Vanderbilt. Europe has copied our worst things- the ugly stupidity of our iron civilization. She is sacrificing her originality to wear clothes like an inhabitant of the gopher prairies, to make Unter den Linden look like Main Street and elect a Babbitt Mayor of the Rue de la Paix. The English language is revered over here as Latin was in the Middle Ages. . . . America must not grow too proud. After all, we are a great country, but not a great people. And everything was there to make America a great...