Word: prout
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Assembled at Detroit, the Amateur Athletic Union of the U. S. re-elected William C. Prout of Boston as President. Election was unanimous after Verne Lacey of St. Louis and Murray Hulbert (Acting Mayor of New York City) withdrew from the lists...
President Prout announced that Charles W. Paddock would probably be reinstated in the august favor of the A. A. U. in time to do the dashes for America in the Olympic Games in Paris next Summer...
...School of Architecture announced today the opening of a special exhibition of drawings, prints, and water colours, of architectural subjects. In date, the artists represented range from the seventeenth century to the present day. There are examples by Canaletto, Guardi, Piranesi, Constable, Ruskin, Turner, Prout, J. L. Smith, K. J. Conant, and H. A. Webster. The works are all selected from the mass of valuable material owned by the Fogg Museum which cannot be exhibited there on account of the cramped facilities and lack of exhibition space. No attempt has been made, in arranging the exhibition, to cover the periods...
...whole affair would be amusing were one only to judge by the letter of the criticism employed by those who would change Boston's school books. A far graver side of this concerted agitation is seen when we reflect that if Messrs. McSweeney, O'Connor, Prout, Walsh and Watson are to have their way, there is nothing to prevent one good textbook after another being tossed out of the Boston schools on the ground that their unhappy writers have not said that perfection was copyrighted in the thirteen States and more especially Massachusetts. Mr. O'Connor is reported...
...been in the past the historians of the school that Professor Hart's assailants seem to prefer. Their passionate concern for the greatness and character of Samuel Adams is gratifying proof that they love that America which undoubtedly he very much helped to create. But Messrs. O'Connor, McSweeny, Prout, Walsh and Watson as students of history should bear in mind that Samuel Adams was very English indeed, as were most of the men who aided him in his splendid work. --The Boston Transcript...