Word: northwestern
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Morals, as such cannot be taught. Once a theme for educational discussion, now generally acknowledged and specifically taught in at least one course of Harvard College, this idea is attacked by Dean R.A. Kent of the College of Liberal Arts at Northwestern University, in an article in the current Educational Review...
...cognoscere causas," wrote Virgil, but in this instance much more fortunate is he who can divine the results of the new course at Annapolis. Those whose illusions concerning the virile midshipman, puissant hero of the boxing ring, the gridiron and the crows nest of a cruiser battling a nasty northwestern, have been shattered are warned against visualizing future admirals in knickers wielding mashles. There are some things, which a narrow deck and a heaving ocean will not permit. Golf might be said to come under the general category...
...breakfast. Suddenly, he put his napkin down on the table; before the servant could reach him, he had fallen to the floor across the arm of his chair. An hour or two later, the newspapers in Chicago had headlines saying that Marvin Hughitt, Finance Chairman of the Chicago & Northwestern Railroad, had suffered a paralytic stroke. The morning after the old man had been carried upstairs from his breakfast table, the newspapers published extra editions to say that Marvin Hughitt had died, without regaining consciousness. Some days later every wheel stopped on 10,000 miles of railroad...
...supervise the complicated departure of trains carrying Union soldiers to Cairo, Ill. While the railroads were pushing their bright tentacles across the Northwest, Marvin Hughitt was becoming assistant general manager of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, manager of the Pullman Palace Car Co., general superintendent of the Chicago & Northwestern, for whose present 10,000 miles of track he is largely responsible. In 1887 he became its president and remained so for 23 years. In 1910, he was made chairman of the board, an office which was abolished two years ago when he resigned to head the Finance Committee...
When the smarter trains of the Chicago & Northwestern and Union Pacific lines moved out of Chicago last week, there was that about them which roused racial comment. Above the tidy uniforms of the club car attendants there shone, not the usual smiling Negro faces, but twinkling Oriental faces, the faces of twelve young Chinamen...