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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Engineer Louis Janin and Miss Lou Henry came into the Hoover picture at about this time-Mr. Janin to hire Herbert Hoover as a stenographer and to let him, almost overnight, acquire an outstanding international reputation as an engineer; Miss Henry to gaze awestruck at Professor Branner's greatest pupil and to accept him a few years later, when he cabled an important question to her from the Australian goldfields, scene of his first...
...Candidate Hoover may well be nominated because people admire his unquestioned ability, integrity, services. They know he has made the least of the Government's departments into one of the three greatest, at the same time doing much of the headwork for the rest of the Cabinet during two administrations. His popularity tends to transcend partisan politics, from which he has been, until recently, free. Unless the widespread sentiment for him proves academic, he is signally a "people's choice." Business, as distinct from Finance, is on his side because it trusts him as a student of material...
...finale of the wrestling season within the University came last night in Hemenway when individual championships were contested in seven classes. Members of the Freshman squad scored the greatest aggregate of points, 23, while the University squad, with 20, came second, and the Graduate School members, who scored 13, trailed...
Dean Hanford's article, however, contains one sentence that far outweighs any of the statistics, evils, and benefits associated with the Reading Period. "Although the students in general seem to have profited from the Reading Period," writes Dean Hanford, "the greatest good was perhaps derived by the honor men and those with a high C average." In one sentence he points indirectly to the chasm within the ranks of students not only in Harvard College but in every university and college in the country, that is, the widening of the gulf which separates the A and B and high...
Smith not only received the greatest number of total votes, but also obtained twice as many votes for first place as Hoover, his nearest rival. Dawes received four firsts, while Reed, Lowden, and Norris got one each. Curtis, Walsh, and Ritchie got no first places...