Word: honorers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Cadet Lieut. William J. Glasgow Jr. is one who is called a "big man" in the senior class at West Point. He is captain of the soccer team, member of most of the reception and prom committees, an honor cadet, a President's appointee, the son of a colonel. Now he is a much twitted cadet. Underclassmen salute him with a smirk in their eyes; seniors ask him how his girl friend is getting along...
...very tall commanding Englishman landed last week at Shanghai. To the coolies who rushed to seize his bags he spoke a few words in fluent guttural Chinese. In his honor the British press of Shanghai spread headlines, welcomed Miles Lampson, the new British Minister to China, hinted hopefully that his arrival would be followed by a strong British demonstration against the "Cantonese Bolsheviks" whose armies captured Foochow last week and were advancing on Shanghai...
...campus and including the distinguished presence of representatives of the Phelps Stokes Fund, the Carnegie Corporation, the Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the American Missionary Association (all contributors to Fisk's million-dollar endowment), as well as dozens of college presidents and Philanthropist Julius Rosenwald of Chicago, guests of honor. To give substance to the occasion, Lawyer Cravath offered $25,000 if alumni would match him. Promptly they contributed...
...other men three were chosen from Princeton, giving that University the honor of beng the only one from which more than a single student was selected. The others were picked from various colleges and universities throughout the country...
...CRIMSON of course presupposes that plans are being laid by the Administration for some gathering at which the undergraduates, the faculty, and the alumni may meet together for the common purpose of honoring the memory of Harvard's greatest President and America's greatest educational leader. The CRIMSON feels certain that all members past and present of the college and of the graduate schools, would wish to honor with fitting ceremony the man who more than any other has made the name of Harvard one to glory...