Word: predecessors
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Shortly after Dr. Atwood became President (Feb., 1921), he discontinued the Departments of Biology and Mathematics, reduced the staffs in Psychology and Sociology, restricted other Departments, brought Geography to the centre of the stage. Under his predecessor, the late G. Stanley Hall, famed psychologist, Clark's graduate schools had achieved international prestige and the university was known for its co-operative spirit of scientific research. Now, however, that seems all changed. Members of the faculty have been steadily resigning, and a year ago the head of the Physics Department, Dr. Arthur G. Webster, committed suicide after stating that his work...
...staunchly President Coolidge has met his grave responsibility! Sympathetically and capably, he has carried on the great work of his predecessor. Problems of his own he has met so bravely that the entire country has given him its confidence and support...
...love and driving her lovers from ecstasy to despair to anger to anger and back again a dozen times is played by Miss Ann Mason. Miss Mason is not Lynn Fontaine, to be sure, and our praise of her might be much higher if the memory of her predecessor were less vivid: but she gives her usual finished, intelligent performance, and scores her usual hit with the St. James patrons...
...There has been corruption before in American politics," Mr. Pell said, in speaking of the Teapot Dome Scandal, "but never has it been taken so complacently. President Coolidge has yet to express one word of indignation at those who betrayed his confidence and that of his predecessor. It is just that, that makes Calvin Coolidge impossible as a president, in the eyes of the thinking public. He talks little, and does nothing...
...Right of developing of this port was said to belong exclusively to a French company. † Although legally elected, he caused a revolution and seized power one week before his predecessor's term of office had expired...