Word: meredith
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Meredith of Tufts and Jackson Colleges said yesterday that college failures are traceable to a deficient personality quotient, rather than to a lack of intelligence. Certainly the entrance examinations have weeded out a major portion of the intellectually unfit; the psychologic maladjustments quite common to the Freshman year are more often responsible for failure than stupidity. This is especially true at Harvard, a large college in a large city. Indifference may be a blessing to the strong, but it may prove Coventry to the first year student bewildered by the austerity and unapproachableness of the environment. And as physical condition...
...excitement spread to Memphis. Union Planters National Bank & Trust and Manhattan Savings Bank & Trust Co. announced that Rogers Caldwell and his son. Meredith Caldwell. had resigned from the directorates of these banks. Citizens of Memphis formed a "vigilance committee...
...expected that every one of the 34 coaches in the I. C. 4A. field this year will be at the dinner including Ted Meredith, Donald Lippincott, John Paul Jones, Tell Berna, Sabin Carr, John DeWitt, Card Taylor, Allen Hellfrich, Bill Cox, Leroy Brown. Larry Whitney, John Hubbard, Gil Horrax and others...
...life was quiet, from preference (and personal appearance). "Crushes," receptions and balls called forth no Hardy harangue but found little favor in his eyes. His only ambition was to have his poems published in a good anthology, like Palgrave's Golden Treasury. Asked to succeed the late great George Meredith as president of the Society of Authors, he wrote : "I must . . . perform the disagree able duty of acting upon my own conviction of what is for the Society's good, and tell you that I feel compelled to decline the honour." A few weeks later he accepted...
...sponsor of the Chicago Civic Shakespeare Society is Harley L. Clarke, president of Utilities Power and Light Corp. Others: President Walter Dill Scott of Northwestern University; President Robert Maynard Hutchins of the University of Chicago; Rufus Cutler Dawes, financier, brother of Ambassador Charles Gates Dawes; Novelists Booth Tarkington and Meredith Nicholson; Managing Editor Henry Justin Smith of the Chicago Daily News...