Word: power
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...expected his dignity and power would "protect him from such ridiculous inference. Nothing in the book represents any person or persons I know...
...Ambassador to Russia; in St. Louis, after long illness. He was in Russia when Tsar Nicholas II was deposed. Through him, the U. S. recognized the Kerensky republic. He suffered from Bolsheviki attacks when the U. S. refused to recognize the revolution which placed the present Russian government in power...
...soon as the reading begins, a newcomer understands what it is that has made "Copey" the William Lyon Phelps (Yale), the Henry van Dyke (Princeton), the John Erskine (Columbia), the Burges Johnson (late of Vassar), of Harvard. The amazingly flexible voice, its sympathies and humor its clarity, expression and power of creating reality out of written words, bespeaks "Copey" as not only a most popular and learned professor but a great master as well of that most difficult of arts, reading aloud...
...accomplish this end they have reorganized their athletic system, and the result is a system of greater complexity than Harvard's. Instead of a single director of athletics with power over all athletic activity, able to engage coaches, and empowered to discharge all the other functions. Brown will have a new athletic council of eleven endowed with powers similar to Mr. Bingham's and also charged to render to the corporation a complete report as the other departments...
Whether or not the power will prove unwieldy in the hands of eleven which a single rane and well-balanced man can assume satisfactorily is beside the point. The plan is significant for the fact that the attempt on the part of the CRIMSON and of Harvard to place less emphasis on athletics for the few and more on athletics for the many is spreading to other universities, and is being accepted and sponsored by enlightened presidents and college corporations...