Word: french
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Formerly all candidates for the Master's degree were required to have an elementary knowledge of French and German, but under the new plan the graduate school rules will conform with those of the College...
Captain H.K. Wells '33, Freshman fullback who was expected to start in the Dartmouth game, was prevented from playing by the injury which has kept him inactive for three weeks. Coach French stated yesterday, however, that it was hoped he would be ready for action when the 1933 eleven meets the Yale Bullpups on Saturday...
...Water Boy bandit, was captured by victorious King Nadir, imprisoned in Kabul. Though Royal Nadir has on occasion fried Afghan generals in oil (TIME, Sept. 2), no such fate awaited Habibullah. He was taken out and humanely shot. Afghans attributed this softness to Nadir's years on the French Riviera...
...value. To him came the financing of the New York Central Railroad and he is today the firm's chief railroad adviser. To him came most of the overseas muddles into which its vast foreign interests plunged the Morgan house. In China (the Consortium), Mexico (International Committee), France (Anglo-French $500,000,000 loan), Austria (1923 joint loan), he has been at one time or another the most important financial factor. When these and many another nation gather together, as at Versailles in 1919 and at Paris in 1929, Mr. Lamont is summoned to speak for U. S. finance...
...electing Dean Madden to the Presidency, the Board of Directors (of which, simultaneously, Dean Dexter Simpson Kimball of Cornell's Engineering College was elected Chairman) had followed an oldtime Alexander Hamilton tradition. It was Dean Joseph French Johnson of New York University's Commerce School who, 20 years ago. founded the Institute. The second. President, Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, who died two months ago, was a onetime N. Y. U. accounting professor. Many a N. Y. U. pedagog has written textbooks, broadcast charts for the 358,442 students and "old boys" of the Institute...