Word: entrusting
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Such has been the fallibility of elevators in the past that last year an old gentleman from Wisconsin visiting Manhattan preferred to walk to the eleventh floor of the Equitable Building rather than entrust his person to the onslaughts of the pert chauffeurs who, with what seemed to him to be smiles of malice, offered to propel him toward his destination...
...splendid compliment which the Bureau received from a Yale graduate. In June, 1920 I was offered the job of tutoring this Yale man's son, the offer coming through the Bureau. I accepted, and later, when the opportunity presented itself, I asked my employer why he was willing to entrust his son to the charge of a Harvard man. His answer was that he was willing to sacrifice his Yale feelings to the confidence he had in the Harvard Employment Bureau. ARTHUR C. WATSON '19 New Bedford, Mass...
...incoming Freshman class has for a number of years been under the official guidance of the Student Council until the election of Freshman officers, and the Student Council has been accustomed to entrust this guidance to some prominent and properly qualified upperclassman. The latter's chief duties are connected with the holding of dormitory and class elections, the affairs of the class demanding executive attention being few in the first half of the year. The dormitory committees, elected two or three weeks before the end of the football season, will help French in taking care of Freshman affairs until...
...agreement of Harvard, Yale, and Dartmouth to entrust the selection of football officials for their major contests to an independent disinterested authority will undoubtedly be brought up and ratified at a meeting of athletic representatives from the leading colleges of the East in New York this evening. Such a method of selection has been in vogue in the Western Conference for some time where the officials for the Big Ten games are chosen by a man without connections with any of the universities...
...agreement completed yesterday, Yale and Harvard athletic directors decided to entrust the selection of officials for the Harvard-Yale football game to a disinterested third party. W. S. Langford of Trinity College, Hartford, famous for his activity in football circles has been chosen to fill this position...