Word: honorable
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...President Hoover selects B. L. Young '07 as first assistant attorney general, as some rumors have had him do already, Mr. Young will be the third Harvard alumnus to be appointed to a post of high honor by the new Chief Executive...
Apropos of the celebration today in Boston of the sixty-seventh anniversary of the maritime battle between the Monitor and Merrimac in honor of John Ericson, builder of the Monitor, is the fact that the original contract for the Caloric engine built by Ericson, is in the possession of a Harvard student, Stephen Thomas...
...definitely announced by several editions of yesterday morning's press that Mr. Young had been appointed directly by Mr. Hoover. In such a capacity he would have charge of the patronage of all federal judicial posts throughout the country. It is a position of which the honor is second only to a few of the cabinet portfolios, and one which brings its holder into extremely close personal contact with the President...
...with connubial connections, presupposing that the duties of the home will prevent paying proper attention to university activities. They forget that such functions as undergraduate dances with happily married couples will be much less disconcerting affairs than they are at present. Such events as unofficial competitions to attain the honor of being the most popular girl will be distinctly discouraged. And, the time formerly wasted in trying to attain the favors of the college widow or her male prototype will be devoted to the profitable occupation of helping the wife with her anthropology...
Princeton has a new claim to distinction. Recently the Alumni Weekly discovered that the graduates of the New Jersey university have spent more years in the White House than those of any other institution in the country. The race for this honor was close, with the Tiger's victory depending upon a half year's margin over Harvard. But a win obviously is a win, and the prize goes to Princeton...