Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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The following story is composed of excerpts from an article written for the current Atlantic Monthly by LeBaron Russell Briggs '75, former president of Radcliffe College and Dean of Harvard.
A year or two after my graduation, I applied to President Eliot for a tutorship in Greek. Tutors in those days were appointed for terms of three years. I was young, inexperienced, and afraid, and undoubtedly made a bad, impression on him. He gave me no encouragement at all. Yet...
Dartmouth will have a covered hockey rink for the coming season. An announcement from the President's office states that funds anonymously provided enable the College to proceed at once with the construction of a building to be located on the site of the former rink at the east end...
President Hopkins said that the plans were in accordance with the suggestions of H. R. Heneage, supervisor of athletics, whose ceaseless insistence upon the need for a rink and whose suggestions in regard to practicable plans had induced the gift.
Here I first came upon that directness which some people called brutality but which was merely the courageous kindness of sincerity. Direct speech, at any cost, was an article of his faith. He was as ready to receive it as to give it. At a meeting of graduate students, while...