Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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General Woodford said that every patriotic and wise man in considering a candidate for any great office should ask first, "Is he fit?" and second, "Is he available?" In answer to the first of these questions General Woodford said that he had known Gov. Hughes since the latter graduated from college, and that he had at once recognized in him a genius for work. He distinguished himself as counsel for the commission which was investigating the gas system of New York, and in 1905-06 by his honesty and courage procured the punishment of the guilty officers of the great...
After being for several years the representative of the city press at the State House, Mr. Murphy has been on the Globe staff for the past twelve years and is widely known throughout state political circles as a ready and witty writer and speaker...
This is his first return to the United States since beginning his work in Alaska, and the lecture tonight will be an unusual opportunity to hear of that little-known country...
...James J. Myers '69, of Cambridge, ex-speaker of the Massachusetts House of Representatives and trustee of the Mackay Estate; Mr. John C. Cobb, president of the Boston Associated Board of Trade and manager of the Taft campaingn in Massachusetts; and Mr. Samuel J. Elder, of Winchester, a well-known Boston lawyer and Yale graduate have been chosen. Any men not members of the Taft Club may join at this meeting...
Those men who did represent Harvard Wednesday night made a characteristic eleventh hour discovery that Yale, playing under a code of her own, was using freshmen on her 'varsity team. Harvard had but the melancholy resource of calling up by long distance telephone those members of the Athletic Committee known, who could in reply only endorse Harvard's previous understanding. "We play by our own rules," said Yale; "see how much better they are than yours." And so they are. The games went on and Harvard lost, where playing under Yale's rules she would have...