Word: lloyds
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...best possible way for Cornell to break out of its Ithacan fastnesses and sell itself to the country at large. Once the public has glimpsed the serene, unwordly life the modern undergraduate leads in his pursuit of knowledge they will no longer believe the "college" movies with which Harold Lloyd and Charles Ray have travestied real college life...
Britons reflected that the newly chosen Viceroy, although a Conservative, is known to have a Liberal bent. Eton, Christ Church and the traditional round of aristocratic preferment have smoothed his path. As Under Secretary for the Colonies under Mr. Lloyd George; as British representative on the Council of the League of Nations in 1923; and as Minister of Agriculture in the present Cabinet, he has had wide experience in states-craft if not a scintillant career. In India his experience and his aristocratic background will well become the Viceregal Lodge at Delhi. Meanwhile historians turned, to contemplate the retiring Viceroy...
...once heard him asked whether it would be possible in the United States to pass into law a Budget with the changes in taxation corresponding to Lloyd George's Budget in 1909. The answer was not a learned exposition of the limitations of the American Constitution; it was simply this: 'It would depend upon whether a Judge of the Supreme Court came down heads or tails...
Another Story: "To greet this Cabinet [above], Asquith, Lloyd George and I went to Paris. . . . Asquith would not, Lloyd George could not, and I had to speak French. In French I know my vocabulary to be limited, my grammar to be imperfect, and my genders to be at the mercy of chance; further, I am told that my accent is atrocious.... When the Council was over. . .Lloyd George said to me: 'You know your French was the only French that I could understand...
President Angell (Yale) entertained Presidents Hibben (Princeton) and Lowell (Harvard). Dean Cross (Yale Graduate School) entertained Deans Daniels (Illinois) and Lloyd (Michigan). President Hadley (Washington University) stayed at the home of Professor Corbin (Yale). Dean Jones (Yale College) was host to President Kinley (Illinois), while President Atwood (Clark) was received by Medical Dean Winternitz (Yale). Many another eminent educator and his wife were under other Yale roofs, so that it was an enjoyable social event as well as a professional affair, the annual meeting of the Association of American Universities, last week at New Haven...