Word: knowns
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Shattuck is well-known as Chairman of the Ways and Means Committee in the Massachusetts Legislature. He returned last year to membership in the firm of Ropes, Gray, Boyden, and Perkins, from which he had resigned in 1920 when he entered the legislature. For four years, Mr. Shattuck was a director of the Harvard Alumni Association. He has served, also, as a member of the council of the Harvard Law School Association, and in 1924 and 1925 he was chairman of the committee for the nomination of Overseers...
...first of the four sessions which will meet is known as the Harvard Conference and will be held under the joint sponsorship of the New England Association of Teachers of English and the Harvard Teachers Association. At this meeting the chairman will be Oscar C. Gallagher, Superintendent of Schools, of Brookline and C. S. Thomas '97 of the Graduate School of Education will introduce the subject...
Dean Briggs has long been known as a famous educator. An assistant professor of English from 1885 to 1890, he received his professorship in 1891. In the same year he became dean of Harvard College, an office which he held until 1902, when he resigned to become dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. It was while he was president of Radcliffe College from 1903 to 1923 that he became most famous, and was awarded honorary degrees by Harvard. Yale, Western Reserve, and Lafayette Universities...
...made to accommodate 600, and a varied program of entertainment will be provided. Among the speakers for the evening will be George Owen '23, famous nine-letter Harvard athlete, now playing with the Boston Bruins. An orchestra is being secured, and there will be various specialty acts by well-known entertainers. Appropriate souvenirs have been purchased and will be distributed to all who attend. Among the amusements offered will be a motion picture, which is yet to be selected, but which will, it is hoped, come up to last year's standard...
...after they were married. He, in Antarctica, had just flown over and claimed for the U. S. unknown land in the Pacific Quadrant* of the continent, between his base on Ross Sea and Sir George Hubert Wilkins' base on Weddell Sea. The region is south of the long-known Alexandra Mountains and the Byrd-discovered Rockefeller mountains, a great stretch of rumpled iciness...