Word: filled
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last January, one seat at the nine-chaired table of the Interstate Commerce Commission became vacant. To fill it, the President turned to the South. Dozens of Southern names were presented to him, names of able railroaders, "good traffic men." But none of them was what the President wanted. Finally, it was hinted that he had found his man. Was it Richard S. Whaley of South Carolina? At any rate, the ideal Southerner refused the chair...
...meeting is occasioned by the fact that all Freshmen will be required next week to fill out forms stating the field in which they mean to concentrate during the next three years of their college course. This is the third year in which such meetings have been held. As the complete system which will govern Freshmen's studies in future years will be discussed, it has been required that every Freshman attend...
...President appointed and the Senate, after a bit of talk, confirmed Harlan F. Stone, the Attorney General, to fill Mr. McKenna's place (TIME...
...plea is for a change in the attitude towards studies and for the breaking down of the preeminence of the extra-curriculum activity. I believe that the extra-curriculum activity, as it does little more than restrict the undergraduate's outlook on life and fill him with empty conceit, fails to prepare him for the future. At present, the undergraduate condemns studies in his anxiety to become great in college. But which is more to be desired: fame in college, or fame in later life...
Harvard has long contented itself with a legendary mascot to avoid the embarrassment of a physical one. The symbolized figure of John Harvard, which the newspapers have invented to fill this vacancy, exists only on the sport page. He is no more than a paper-and-ink-cartoon...