Word: general
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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Last spring the CRIMSON took pains to bring before the undergraduates the question of how managers of athletic teams should be selected. A number of communications and editorials upon that subject were printed, and although there was a pretty general agreement that the present system of choosing managers is not satisfactory, there seemed to be no consensus of opinion as to a remedy. Since that discussion, however, a new organization has come into existence, the Student Council, and it seems proper to open the discussion again, this time with more hope of a speedy solution of the question...
...announced last night that Frank H. Hitchcock '91 had been offered and had accepted the position of postmaster general in President-elect Taft's cabinet. This is the first cabinet office to be filled. Mr. Hitchcock will succeed another Harvard graduate, George von L. Meyer...
...Hitchcock entered the Columbia University Law School, receiving the degree of LL.M. in 1895. In 1903 he was made chief of the department of commerce and labor, and at the Republican convention in 1904 he filled the position of assistant secretary. The following year he became assistant postmaster general, resigning last June to manage the Republican national campaign. His able work in this position was one of the chief factors which contributed to Taft's success...
...utmost simplicity and frugality. His father brought him to the White House to meet President Pierce immediately after his inauguration. Mr. Buchanan was a quiet, democratic gentleman. During the Civil War, Mr. Wise knew Jefferson Davis and Abraham Lincoln. He carried the last message from General Lee to the president of the Confederacy and came to know him well. He was stubborn and egotistical, though intrepid and courageous in every way. Andrew Johnson was one of the guests at Mr. Wise's wedding. He met President Grant in a train one evening and talked with him about the Civil...
Nearly three centuries have passed since the first festival of Thanksgiving was celebrated in early New England days. Since that time the custom of setting apart a day of general thanksgiving in the harvest season has spread from the shores of New England throughout the land until today it has become a thoroughly established national festival. Harvard College, more perhaps than any other similar institution, is distinctly associated with Thanksgiving Day, first because the earliest observances are to be found in and about Boston, and secondly because the first proclamation making a day of thanksgiving a national concern was drawn...