Word: regent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...inordinate zeal for pumping, three years later, sounded the death knell for the volunteer firemen. At one of the company's drills, either out of malice, or because the chief of the company was not entirely certain of his bearings, the room of the College Regent was chosen as the scene of the "fire". Not until this "fire" had been thoroughly extinguished by gallons of water directed through an open window did the furious pumpers desist, and only when the window was closed by the saturated occupant of the room, was the drill declared over...
...regents' resolution was occasioned by an offer of $600,000 from the Rockefeller Institute for Medical Research at Wisconsin. Without making their self-denial retroactive to previous gifts from the "lobbying" oil interests, the regents refused. Regent-Novelist Zona Gale filled a page in The Nation with their reasons, which boiled down to: the social danger of domination by wealthy donors and civic pride in the fact that Wisconsin stands fifth among state-supported universities in the size of annual appropriations, its income equaling revenue from an endowment of 20 millions...
...same time that the students of Glasgow University were pelting one another with aged eggs and older fish in an attempt to choose a Regent, the police were called into the classrooms of the Sorbonne to quell a riot started by candidates for degrees who had failed in the written examinations. To their not unbiased minds the examinations were quite impossible. And to the not unbiased mind of the dean they, themselves, were quite impossible. Their "incredible ignorance" shocked the dean; for among them was one who credited Chateaubriand with "Emile" and "The Social Contract". Thereupon the dean...
Wherefore surprise was general when the Regents of the University of Wisconsin met last week, voted 9 to 6 that "no gifts, donations or subsidies shall in the future be accepted by or on the behalf of the University of Wisconsin from any incorporated educational endowments or organizations of like character." Though Regent Daniel H. Grady, framer of the resolution, pointed out that his colleagues "had no moral right to accept money from the Rockefeller Institution in view of the spending by the Standard Oil Co. of $2,770 for lobbying in the last session of the [state] legislature...
...Seiyukai Minister arose, said that his party, of which three members form part of the coalition Cabinet, could not support the Finance Minister's contentions. Premier Kato called upon the three Seiyukai Ministers to resign. They refused. To get rid of them, Premier Kato handed the Prince Regent the Cabinet's resignation. The Prince accepted the resignation and asked Premier Kato to form a new Cabinet, which he did merely by appointing three Kenseikai (Government) Party members to fill the places of the dropped Seiyukai members...