Word: sage
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...olive of Pharmacy, lilac of Dentistry, russet of Forestry, gray of Veterinary Science, lemon of Library Science, light blue of Pedagogy, drab of Commerce and Accountancy, sage of Physical Education, salmon of Public Health, orange of Engineering, silver of Oratory, maize of Agriculture and copper of Economics appear to be arbitrary selections for degrees more recently instituted...
...Henry J. Allen, Governor, ushered into being the Kansas Court of Industrial Relations (formally created by act of the Legislature). In effect, it was a court of compulsory arbitration. It made the little man famous, made him a conspicuous figure at the Republican Convention that year. William Allen White, sage of the prairies, christened it " the greatest piece of constructive legislation of the reconstruction period...
...Rome, the Osservatore Romano, official loudspeaker for the Vatican, printed extracts from Cardinal Maffi's letter; no other newspaper dared follow suit for fear of suppression. But the Osservatore Romano, in its turn, did not deem it politic to ignore the sage words of one of the mightiest Princes of the Church...
...grace soaring beyond thought-these he served. He is almost solely responsible for the revival of Gothic in the U. S., now seen in innumerable college buildings, churches, cathedrals, offices, country houses. He built the chapel at West Point, the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena, the Russell Sage Memorial at Far Rockaway, N. Y., the permanent buildings of the Panama Exposition. Over 50, he entered a competition for the Nebraska Capitol, won it, but overworked, fell ill. A great ceremony was planned for his 55th birthday, Apr. 25, 1924. On that day, the National Academy of Sciences at Washington...
...alumni is it given to be so closely brought back to the very breath of undergraduate days as will the members of the Charles Townsend Copeland Association, at their New York dinner. What could possibly rouse more delightful memories than once more to listen to the sage whose Monday evening gatherings in Hollis were to so many young, but not younger, spirits an inspiration and a delight? To rejoice over the appointment to the Boylston chair of the professor whose place in the undergraduate heart is and has ever been unique, will be a joyous occasion to those whose reminiscences...