Word: member
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...discrediting" propaganda was John Valentine Dittemore, onetime member of the directing board which answered him last week, staunch believer in medicine and surgery...
Died. Oscar W. Underwood, 66, Democrat, member of the House and Senate for 32 years; of a cerebral hemorrhage; in his Virginia home, Woodlawn...
...delivery boy for a country grocer in McGregor, Iowa, he saved enough money to set out for Yale University, where he was graduated in 1876. A classmate of his great & good friend, Arthur Twining Hadley, now Yale's President Emeritus, Bannard served Yale as a member of the Corporation and as chairman of the successful 1927 campaign to raise $20,000,000.? In 1909, he, no politician, ran for Mayor of New York City at the urgent request of his Republican friends; he finished behind William J. Gaynor and ahead of William Randolph Hearst. His business monument...
...insure the success of the House Plan, the tutors must have no part in the administrative duties of the College, restricting themselves to an advisory and social capacity," declared L. D. Peterkin, a member of the Classical Department of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and a tutor in the Department of English and the Classics, when asked his opinion of the duties of the tutors under the House plan. Peterkin speaks from experience gained as a tutor in the University for the past four years, and from knowledge of the English system in practice at Oxford and Cambridge...
...brings into sharp relief many of the absurdities of the House Plan as it is envisaged by its present supporters. The scheme of arbitrary assignment to Houses in accordance with the idea of a cross-section composition for each calls forth the following remarks from a proselyting member of Unit C: "When your application blanks come you must on no account mention Unit C." "Why?" "Because the dean will think you want to join the units you list because you have friends there, or because you hear the tutors are good, or because you think the fellows will be congenial...