Word: forbeses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When civil government was introduced, many prominent Americans interested themselves in the Islands. Among the earliest were Dr. Schurman of Cornell, and Chief-Justice Taft, who become the first governor-general. Among the most recent have been W. Cameron Forbes and Major-General Wood, both governors-general. Under the leadership...
A few moths before Major-General Wood became governor-general. President Harding despatched him and ExGovernor General Forbes to the Philippines to make a complete survey and report on conditions. The Wood-Forbes report recommended, among other things, "that the present general status of the Philippine Islands continue until the...
"No doubt," says another. "But then you can't remember Forbes-Robertson!"
There followed a series of pretenders to the throne--men like the lesser Roman emperors who fill up the gaps in the annals. At last Beerbohm Tree, in the name of variety, appeared as a red-headed, red-bewhiskered Hamlet, but failed. With no ghost and no Ophelia it is...
The complete score is as follows: Harvard Forbes 44 Begg 44 Maxwell 43 Baruch 41 Potter and Bancroft 39 -- Total 211 Yale Williams 48 Blackmer 47 Birdsall 46 Holmes 43 Slade 43 -- Total 227