Word: orders
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...case, it would not be the first one in which a president of an American college had been forced to give up his position due to pressure from some governing board. On the other hand there are even more numerous cases of smaller executives resigning from their positions in order to continue research which they considered would be more profitable than retaining an administrative post. The possible ramifications of such a discussion are infinite, but it is highly probable that when our present educational system emerges from its period of transition, trained executives will hold the positions now filled...
...Contemptibles." To this day Britons who fought in France during 1914 proudly refer to themselves collectively, as "The Old Contemptibles." This they do because on Sept. 24, 1914 they read in the British Expeditionary Force Routine Orders of the day that on Aug. 19, 1914 the Kaiser declared, in a General Order issued from German Headquarters, Aix-la-Chapelle...
George Cretziano, suave Rumanian Minister to the U. S., was ordered to swap posts with peppery Carol Davila, Rumanian Minister to Poland. The order was part of a general reshuffle of Rumanian diplomats, drastically begun last week by the new Peasant Prime Minister of Rumania, Juliu Maniu (TIME...
...Council of Fifty," composed of "leading Mullahs and Khans of the Realm." Since these persons would unquestionably revoke all the newfangled decrees issued by King Amanullah after returning from his famed tour of Europe (TIME, Jan. 23- June 4. '28), joyous Afghans prepared for a new order, "Back to Barbarism...
Wilson's plan was, however, complicated by the firm roots the existing club system had taken in Princeton life. In order to win to his plan the club members, especially the graduate members, he proposed an involved and never completely formulated plan whereby "the clubs should gradually allow themselves to be absorbed into the University by the natural process of becoming themselves residential quads, and so retaining their historical identify at the same time that they showed their devotion to the University by an act of supreme sacrifice." How them, should selections be made? There is the obvious objection that...