Word: reporter
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Next Step. President Coolidge having, as everyone expected, upheld Governor General Wood in vetoing the plebiscite, the next step is for the U. S. Congress to grant certain governmental and economic reforms which will soothe the independence agitation. These reforms were suggested in Col. Carmi A. Thompson's report (TIME, Jan. 3)-which, among other things, hinted that Governor General Wood's "cavalry cabinet" is the storm centre of Filipino dissatisfaction. (The "cavalry cabinet" is a group of Army officers who act as advisors and administrators for the Governor General...
Twenty-one years ago a robust Sergeant in Squadron A, New York City National Guard, was riding through Rock Creek Park, Washington, D. C. Suddenly he heard the familiar voice of Elihu Root, then Secretary of State, saying: "By order of the Secretary of War, Sergeant Stimson will report at once, in person, to the President of the United States." On the other side of Rock Creek he saw Secretary Root and President Roosevelt. Plunging into the rain-swollen, swift-flowing stream, he urged his horse across, arrived wet, triumphant. His summons was merely a Rooseveltian method of inviting...
...McCormick, who is in charge of the tests has so aptly put it. "These tests are not a matter of vanity, but of some business logic. We offer an exceptional opportunity in exchange for personality, ambition, and interest. We expect 200 men to report for preliminary examinations at Harvard...
According to the report of the Associated Harvard Clubs Committee on Schools, written by N. H. Batchelder '01, nearly 50 per cent of the University's undergraduate population registers from Massachusetts. The South and the Far West contribute only three per sent each, and the rest of the undergraduate body is recruited from the other parts of the United States and from foreign countries. This would tend to show that the University is becoming more sectional in character and does not have as satisfactory a geographical distribution of students as is found at Yale...
...also brought, out in the report that attendance from ten of the 11 large New England preparatory schools is on the increase. The sole exception is Groton, which has recently shown a falling off in the number of its graduates attending the University...