Word: samuels
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...fact that this news was under the RELIGION section. As stated, the Congress was to discuss such problems as "Should the colonization of the Jews in Palestine be based on socialistic or capitalistic methods?", "Should the policies of Great Britain, as pursued under the commissionership of Sir Herbert Samuel, be approved or a firmer stand taken, thus investing the power of leadership in a new executive?" It is clear that these as well as the many other issues brought up are of a purely social character, and as such they were rather to be classed under your FOREIGN NEWS columns...
...these eventually joined the able tutorial staff formed with Harris, by sauve, swarthy Samuel, who has always remained the driving power of their educational projects. His brisk, confident speech, the quick movements of his chunky body, the very sheen of his black hair and the flashing smile on his wide mouth, gave an impression of prime mental masculinity that has attracted colleagues and stimulated faltering students. "Here," say the latter, "is a man who makes molehills of mountains. He is swift, sure, knows what is wanted. Though warmhearted, he is cold-blooded toward examinations. He spots them, stabs them...
Often the "shark's" name is Cohen, or Levi, or Weinstein. In Princeton '23 his name was Saul Makrauer. In Yale '07 (Sheffield Scientific School) his name was Samuel B. Rosenbaum. It is the post-graduate careers of these men that is interesting, for they are usually born teachers of an efficient, 20th Century kind. This month, the opening of a new preparatory school, The Milford School of New York, was an illustration of the "shark" type's capabilities. Thereby also hangs a story about stepladders to the golden apples of learning...
...Samuel Rea, President of the Pennsylvania Railroad, retired last week, at 70. He will remain as a director. Mr. Rea, who rose from rodman in a chain gang, through every department of the railroad to election to the Presidency in 1913, is an industrialist of a school that is rapidly passing into legend- a school whose favorite reading matter is the Bible, whose favorite exercise is obtained with an ax handle, who believe that work is the secret of their success, and who - nourished in the fervor of an epoch fat with expansion -have an impugnable faith in every...
Under the auspices of the Graduate Schools Society, Dr. Samuel McC. Crothers, Minister of the First Unitarian Church of Cambridge, will lecture in Peabody Hall of the Phillips Brooks House at 4 o'clock. He has announced the title of his address as "Re-investing our Moral Securities...