Word: knox
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cheek Jr. '26, captain-elect of the football team, and J. L. Knox '95, coach of the Second University team, will be the speakers at a meeting of all football candidates to be held at the Varsity Club next Wednesday evening at 7 o'clock...
...Johnson resolution, to receive the text of the agreement and then to begin tearing it to pieces. Another battle parallel, if not equal, to the contest which resulted in the rejection of the Versailles Treaty may be brewing. Of the old irreconcilables many are gone, never to return-Lodge, Knox, Brandegee. But some still remain. Hiram Johnson still remains, proud of being "progressive'' and "irreconcilable." Around him the Macedonian phalanx will gather. It is still to be seen whether the old phalanx has weakened, or whether its opponents have developed a defense which is capable of countering...
...Alexander Meiklejohn, La-Follette of college presidents, there is balm in Galesburg, Ill. Last week, the young men and women of Knox College stuck placards about their campus, issued a statement: "We believe Mr. Meiklejohn to be the exponent of the liberal college and believe he is indispensable to Knox if Knox is to maintain the leadership of liberal colleges which she has attained through the activities of preceding administra- tions...
...other words, undergraduate Knox wanted Dr. Meiklejohn for her President when her present head, Dr. James L. McConaughy, departs after Jan. 1 to become President of Wesleyan University. It seemed doubtful, however, that Dr. Meiklejohn would be more than flattered and gratified by this informal invitation. Aroused to action by the losing fight he fought in 1923 when, as President of Amherst, he sought to put in effect there his liberal principles of education (TIME, June 25, 1923 et seq.), Dr. Meiklejohn has been plan- ning an "independent" university of his own (TIME, Sept...
...Manhattan, last week, counsel for the New York Herald-Tribune employed much the same arguments used by Mr. Baker and his colleague, to win acquittal for their clients before Judge John C. Knox and a Federal Grand Jury. Whereupon the prosecution (i. e., the Government), in order finally to test the law, had the Herald-Tribune reindicted, using as grounds the tax figures of individuals other than those named in the first indictment. The re-indictment was quashed perfunctorily by Judge Knox, as the prosecution intended it should be; and the Government was free to appeal this second case...