Word: electively
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...short letter Monday from a disgruntled graduate raised the question whether a clergyman without experience in education was the logical choice for the president of a great metropolitan university. Bishop Anderson's answering plea for a sympathetic trial of the president-elect was criticised Wednesday by a prominent Bostonian, Charles K. Bolton of the Athenaeum, as leaving the main issue untouched. He suggested that the Boston public, more than once appealed to for financial support may well object to an unbroken line of Methodist clergymen at the head of such an institution, and asked whether a man's usefulness...
...boxes, like the men on the ice, had been led to display an interest in professional hockey, in "Les Canadiens," in the Prince of Wales Cup, which will go to the team which wins the league championship. John Ringling, Rosamond Pinchot, Frank Crowninshield, Mayor Hylan, Charles Sabin, Mayor-Elect Walker, Paul D. Cravath, Clarence Mackay, Mr. and Mrs. James N. Hill, Paul Manship, Sarah Schuyler Butler and innumerable others with printable names saw the Canadians in their scarlet shirts drub the New York team...
...Adopted a resolution to have the credentials of Representative-elect John W. Langley of Kentucky considered by a select committee to report on the qualifications of Mr. Langley and recommend action to the House. Mr. Langley is under prison sentence for conspiracy to violate the prohibition laws...
...Texas, where they pay a $500 bonus for catching a rich man violating the liquor statutes, where the "unwritten law" and the "hip-pocket move" as defenses for killers still bulk large in the eyes of the courts, where they impeach a Governor, elect his wife to the office, and then complain because she follows his advice,--in Texas, they don't believe in evolution either. A dispatch yesterday from the Lone Star State throws light on the mental processes of Texans and their beliefs and disbeliefs...
...eleven Gimbels are to be thought of in terms of a football team, the dynamic Richard must be thought of as quarterback and captain-elect. His biography is briefly given: graduated (in 3% years) from Yale College in the class of 1920; has learned the department store business from the bottom up. Many other things are related of him-the anecdotes that barnacle the career of any unusual personality. Though not prepossessing in appearance, Richard Gimbel almost invariably gets what he wants. Perhaps it is a hotel room...