Word: posts
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Harvard in order to relieve himself of responsible duties and that, although the honor conferred by such a position might be great, he was not disposed to undertake new responsibilities which might not be agreeable to him. Although President Eliot was urged to defer the refusal of the post until he had taken it into further consideration, he thought it better to come to a definite decision immediately...
...order to relieve himself of responsible duties. He stated, moreover, that, having been as educator all his life, the assumption of a new occupation, however great the distinction conferred, might not be agreeable to him. Yet it is understood that Mr. Taft persuaded President Eliot not to decline the post absolutely, but to take the matter under advisement, since there was no immediate need of a definite reply...
...White House this morning and the two conferred in the Blue Room. It is understood that the Embassy to the Court of St. James was officially tendered to President Eliot and that he was given time to consider it. The expectation is that he will accept the post and will not enter upon the duties before October, for the official change at London is not to be made until then, and possibly not until later. Both men refused to discuss what took place between them...
...graduation from the Law School he practiced law in Boston and with Oliver Wendell Holmes '61 edited the American Law Review. In 1875 Mr. Sedgwick moved to New York and was admitted to the bar there. He was for some years on the editorial staff of the Evening Post and of the Nation and has besides written several treatises...
...Loomis '10, 20 sec.; H. Y. Masten '10, 10 sec.; E. Mathieu Sp., 1 min.; L. L. A. Moran '11, 1 min.; G. Murphy '10, 10 sec.; A. S. Olmsted '09, 1 min.; R. W. Peters '11, 1 min.; H. E. Porter '09, 1 min.; W. R. Post '10, 1 min.; C. W. Putnam '11, 1 min.; A. L. Quinn '12, 20 sec.; A. C. Roberts '11, 1 min.; B. E. Roberts '12, 1 min.; W. P. Rogers '11, 15 sec.; R. H. Rouse '12, 1 min.; W. F. Ryan '11, 1 min.; T. R. Schoonmaker...