Word: ordeal
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty-five years ago Oliver Wendell Holmes '61 took his place on the Supreme Bench of the United States, in that room of the Capital which had been the meeting place of Congress during a century of wery kind of ordeal. It is not merely that Justice. Holmes has given twenty-five years of his life to the support of the national integrity to which he was heir, nor yet that no man before him ever served in the Supreme Court at such an advanced age. This is a man who has seen the law not in terms a didactic...
...this objection. And even without that provision an optional conference with one's tutor would not burden him with even half the usual labor of the routine months. He would still enjoy a comparatively free time for research. The wary will recommend that the student, about to enter an ordeal of fire, be allowed at least a certain sanctuary where he may find, not necessarily reenforcements, but encouragement and warning. As the plan now stands students may be granted tutorial aid in some cases, but the general tendency is in the opposite direction. Should each individual receive satisfactory guidance...
...police magistrate dismissed the disorderly conduct case against Principal Rainey. But William J. O'Shea superintendent of New York schools, ordered him to cease his ordeal-by-boxing at once...
...feared serious, may need a little rest, but the Brown game will find him ready for action. A. E. French '29 played quarterback for the greater part of the game, and suffered a severe battering, but Dr. Richards declared that the Junior would feel no ill effects from his ordeal...
...unpopular by opposing the militarists that he was transferred to The Hague, Netherlands. After the war he was called to the Foreign Office first as head of the Eastern Department and after as State Secretary of Foreign Affairs - the permanent head of the German Foreign Office. His greatest diplomatic ordeal was doubtless in persuading the Kaiser to abdicate. Wilhelm II, at the time he fled from Germany, had not officially abdicated, his renunciation of the throne having been announced without Imperial authority by Chancellor Prince Max of Baden. Baron von Maltzan was therefore sent to Amerongen Castle to secure...