Word: governors
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Harvard Surgical Unit under the leadership of Hugh Cabot A.B. '94, M.D. '98, will arrive at the North Station this afternoon about 2 o'clock. It will parade through Boston to Liberty Cottage on the Common, where the surgeons and nurses will be received by Governor Coolidge and his staff, Mayor Peters '85, Rear Admiral Wood and General Edwards...
...other day Senator Lodge received a timely letter from the Lieutenant-Governor of the state suggesting that a resolution be introduced in Congress to change the name of the Panama Canal to the Roosevelt Canal in commemoration of the late Theodore Roosevelt. The idea of such a memorial is excellent; as the Governor expresses it is "to link together for all time the name of this great American leader with the great American contribution to the world...
...Congress will meet in joint session that day and by unanimous vote of both houses the eulogy on their behalf will be delivered by Henry Cabot Lodge. His selection for that solemn service has an appropriateness that the country was no less quick than the Congress to attest. The Governor of New York, Colonel Roosevelt's life long State, has set the example which other governors are following in rapid succession, the Governor of Rhode Island being the first of the New England governors to set the day apart, by formal proclamation for services commemorative of the life and work...
...time Massachusetts will, under the leadership of the governor, make such arrangements as will insure here the same general commemoration that will mark the day in other States. --Boston Transcript...
...Governor Coolidge is perhaps gifted with far greater foresight than his opponents will allow him when he says that in reconstructing education the classics must not be forgotten. "After all," he says, "idealism is the only practical thing." It is in humanizing, in leavening human society, then, that we can overcome those forces which, shooting up from the soil of a "reckless" materialism, work adversely to the finer and nobler aspirations of human society. If we are to choose between leaven and dynamite in reconstructing civilization, by all means let it be the former...