Word: resignations
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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After nearly half a century as Harvard's most loved teacher and a quarter of a century as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Le Baron Russell Briggs '75 has given notice that he will resign at the end of the present academic year. This announcement was made yesterday after the Corporation and the Board of Overseers had taken action to appoint his successors...
...appointed Dean of Harvard College. In 1903 he was chosen Dean of the Faculty, and two years later was awarded the coveted Boylston Professorship. From 1903 until 1923 he was President of Radcliffe College, and for many years he was chairman of the Athletic Committee, from which post he resigned a year ago. Miss Comiscock is an able successor as Radcliffe President, Mr. Pennypacker is now leading the Athletic Committee. Professor Copeland will follow him as Boylston Professor, and Professor Moore will try to fill his shoes as dean of deans; yet every undergraduate who has ever talked with...
Senator Reed Smoot of Utah was at pains, last week, to deny a rumor that he was about to resign his seat in the Senate to become head of the Mormon Church. Heber J. Grant, present head of the Church, is ill; but even if he should die, Rudger Clawson is senior to Mr. Smoot among the Mormon elders...
...Barmat. Preliminary investigations showed that wholesale corruption involving several prominent Socialists had been practiced. Monarchist guns barked their medley of jubilation. The Lokal Anziger printed a letter which clearly revealed the painful fact that ex-Chancellor Bauer had accepted money from the Barmats. The Socialist Party forced Bauer to resign from the Reichstag?but nothing it could do could temper the cracking shrapnel that spat its hate on every side. Dr. Anton Hofle, ex-Minister of Ports, resigned temporarily from the Reichstag and his trial was rumored; for, although he was not accused of profiting financially, it remained a fact...
Secretary of the Navy Wilbur served notice on the First (Senior) Class to the Naval Academy that the Navy Department would not consider any resignations which its members might offer upon graduation next June. Not only that; he sent word that no resignations would be considered from any of them within two years. The reason for this policy is simple: last June, many graduates resigned; during the year, a large number of naval officers resigned. The action was necessary to prevent a dearth of officers. To those who may wish to resign, the Secretary's letter bearing these tidings...