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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...would be the first clean-shaven Cabinet in U. S. history, frowned quizzically and held something in his hands behind Attorney General Sargent's head. Secretary Curtis Dwight Wilbur (Navy) let his long arms hang at his sides and peered forth from beneath the heaviest dark eyebrows and highest shock of hair in the Cabinet, through the only pair of spectacles (rimless) in the picture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE CABINET: Dinner for Ten | 12/12/1927 | See Source »

...School will hold a competition examination Saturday at 2 o'clock to determine the winners of approximately 15 scholarships which are offered every year in December to all members of the first year class. Each scholarship is worth $250, and is awarded to the men who receive the highest grades in the examination...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In the Graduate Schools | 12/7/1927 | See Source »

...Beta Kappa Scholarship Trophy, a handsome bronze plaque which has been given every year since 1915 to the preparatory school or high school whose graduates attain the highest distinction in examinations for admission to college, was won this year for the third consecutive time by the Boston Latin School, of which P. T. Campbell '93 is headmaster. The average for the winning team of seven men was 90.25 percent. Phillips Exeter Academy was next in order with an average of 89.16 percent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL TAKES SCHOLASTIC PALM | 12/6/1927 | See Source »

...Harvard. Moreover, the standing of the several schools in the records made by all the graduates in the contest was to be determined not by a given year, but by the achievement of the best seven from each school. The rating of the teams is based upon the highest average obtained in four College Entrance Examinations on subjects chosen by each of the team's seven members...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BOSTON LATIN SCHOOL TAKES SCHOLASTIC PALM | 12/6/1927 | See Source »

...press, Dr. Koehler cheerfully declared his "highest satisfaction that he has been able to balance the National Account book not only without recourse to a foreign loan, but also without touching the 500,000,000 mark National Internal loan raised last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Budget | 12/5/1927 | See Source »

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