Word: landed
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...with National Prohibition the law of the land, Chief Justice William Howard Taft made a speech at New Haven, Conn. Excerpts...
...American university graduate who studies abroad are generally vague and difficult. More especially when the travelling scholar has been honored in being the recipient of a fellowship is his position troublesome. The establishment of Rhodes scholars and the like as a sort of congenial and unofficial ambassadors to the land of their sojourn has tended to become a reversible reaction, with the result that frequent lamentations have bewailed these men as Caligulas trying to reign in a new Rome and making only a sorry pottage of their distinction...
Cambridge, England, November 29, 1928--An eloquent speech for his native land by T. H. Eliot '28, an assistant managing editor of the CRIMSON last year, and grandson of the late Charles W. Eliot '53, former president of Harvard University, resulted in the voting down by the judges of a condemnatory resolution following a debate here...
...Spring of 1902 the necessary subscriptions to insure the $5,000,000 required to purchase the land and erect the buildings of the School had been secured J. P. Morgan '89 gave over a million dollars for the erection of three of the five buildings as a memorial to his father once a merchant of Boston; John D. Rockefeller gave a million dollars which forms part of the Permanent endowment; Mrs. Collis P. Huntington of New York and David Sears of Boston each gave a memorial building for laboratory uses...
...subject "Short Story Writing" Mr. Gallishaw brings to his audience besides an established ability as a writer a varied experience in other fields. For a time an assistant dean of Harvard College when the war broke out he went to Gallipoli as a member of a Newfound land regiment in the British Army Later in the war he fought with the American expeditionary force in France Mr. Gallishaw's wide and colorful back ground should combine with an acknowledged technical skill to make his lecture at 2 o'clock this afternoon attractive for many Vagabonds...