Word: polyglots
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...third time in his 20-odd busy years of pedagogy, Harry Woodburn Chase-now white-haired though only 49 -made ready to move last week. He had accepted the chancellorship (presidency) of sprawling, polyglot New York University, to succeed Dr. Elmer Ellsworth Brown who is retiring at 71. Dr. Chase once said that his faith was in the State universities. N. Y. U. is privately endowed, receiving nothing from city or State. But it is large-the nation's largest, with 27,905 degree candidates-and its widespread activities are such as to keep Dr. Chase busy and happy...
...schools of Business. Electrical Engineering, Fine Arts. Medicine.' By "down-at-heel'' TIME referred to Penn's needs which President Gates, upon taking office, set out to supply with a $20.000.000 endowment drive. TIME also had in mind that Penn. like Columbia, has lost through polyglot expansion the distinction it once shared among Eastern colleges with Harvard, Princeton. Yale.-ED. Morley & Hoover Sirs: Better, better and better gets "The March of Time." Last night's conversation between President Hoover and Christopher Morley was your highest high point for verisimilitude. For four years as telephone operator...
...John Henry MacCracken, associate director of the American Council on Education, U. S. Commissioner of Education William John Cooper, President Livingston Farrand of Cornell University, President James Lukens McConaughy of Wesleyan, President Cloyd Heck Marvin of George Washington (Washington, D. C.) and President Nicholas Murray Butler of polyglot Columbia, who cried, "Reactionary and stupid...
Vines was mistaken. In the other half of a polyglot semifinal, an elegant little Englishman, Bunny Austin, had beaten an acrobatic little Japanese, Jiro Sato. Against Austin, Vines was just as good as he had been against Crawford. Their match was over in 45 minutes, 6-4, 6-2, 6-0. Austin watched Vines's last serve, an ace, go past, then ran up to shake hands. Said he: "I couldn't play against that...
...refresh his memory regarding the resolution which demanded the release of Miss Berkman. In the first place it was not drawn up by myself, but was proposed from the floor. As chairman of the meeting I referred it for a vote. An objection was raised that because of the polyglot nature of the group it would be misrepresentative to let the Liberal Club speak through this vote, whatever it might be. The chairman accepted this meeting and the resolution was rephrased to read, "At a meeting called by the Harvard Liberal Club the following resolution was adopted ...." In this form...