Word: presidental
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Twenty years ago, on June 1, 1907, President Eliot announced at the Detroit meeting of the Associated Harvard Clubs that the university proposed to establish a graduate school for training in business. With a grant of $12,500 a year for five years from the Rockefeller Foundation and with an...
President Eliot believed that, by the end of the five-year period for which the modest but adequate sum had been raised, the school would have so clearly demonstrated its usefulness that its future permanent support would be ensured. When asked if he meant to apply both quantitative and qualitative...
The growth of the school was some-what slower than President Eliot had expected, but he was satisfied with its progress, and President Lowell, who from the beginning had been deeply interested, declared an end to the period of experiment by his act in establishing it as an independent faculty...
To Ensign Clarence E. Coffin Jr., U. S. N., went the congratulatory letter from President Hoover, the Crescent Cup, the Army Ordnance Trophy (a .30-calibre rifle), the National Rifle Association medal. He had scored 147 out of 150.
Memorable to the author is this tale: The President has allowed the children to go swimming with their clothes on. Mrs. Roosevelt, afraid that they might catch cold, bustled off for a homely medicine. " 'Father, won't you ask her not to give us ginger?' He looked...