Word: fulle
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Historians feel, too, the importance of requiring research students in history to do more exhaustive reading in the works of the great masters. Formerly our young scholars read the longer history classics in full. Now the tendency is to read parts of these works...
Elliot H. Goodwin, resident (Washington) Vice President of the Chamber of Commerce of the U. S.: "Since I joined this body in 1912, as general secretary, I have had, practically, full charge through the various presidencies. (John W. O'Leary of Chicago is now President, TIME, May 24.) Membership now includes 1,458 Chambers of Commerce and other trade associations, which represent 15,000 firms and individuals. We now have a $3,000,000 building here in Washington. My salary is $20,000 yearly. Last September my board of directors decided to curtail my authority, to subordinate...
...squad will be able to muster its full strength for this week's tilt with the Princeton Tiger, since not a man received a serious injury in the Tufts encounter. Guarnaccia and Saltonstall, both of whom starred in the long marches down the field, were lame and bruised, but will be in perfect condition by next Saturday. Bell, Kilgour, and K. D. Robinson, the three players who were unable to take part in last Saturday's game, will be fit and ready before the end of the week...
...professorships at Harvard rapidly increased. Nicholas Boylston of Boston, when he died in 1771, bequeathed to the College 1,500 pounds for the foundation of a "Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory." The Corporation in rendering its thanks for the donation, asked the executors of the will to permit a full length portrait of Boylston to be drawn, at the expense of the College, and placed in Harvard Hall, with those of Hollis and Hancock. The painting, which was executed by Copley, is considered one of the most successful and finished examples of the work of that distinguished artist. The list...
...final years of his life, and left to it the bequest above mentioned, "to be appropriated toward the endowing of a profesor of law, or a profesor of physic and anatomy, whichever the Corporation and Overseers of the College shall judge best for its benefit: and they shall have full power to sell said lands and put the money out to interest, the income whereof shall be for the aforesaid purpose." It was not until 1815 that the College authorities deemed it wise to establish the chair, which they named the Royall Professorship of Law. In 1816, Isaac Parker...