Word: sheffield
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Last week crate-counters smiled, rubbed hands, said "I told you so." When James Rockwell Sheffield, U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, had left Mexico City last month for what was announced as a vacation, skeptics had spied upon his baggage, counted some 27 crates of personal and household effects. Who, vacation bound, would travel so heavily freighted? Ambassador Sheffield, they concluded, was not coming back...
Rumors of a Sheffield resignation began to circulate as far back as last summer when the Ambassador visited the U. S. for a conference with the President, then vacationing in the Adirondacks. For that trip, however, the Ambassador had purchased a round-trip ticket, and he was soon back in Mexico City. (President Coolidge in the letter quoted above referred to "the suggestion you made in the summer of 1926?that you did not wish to remain in Mexico...
...department will have two divisions, one the Bureau of Appointments largely as constituted at present, and the other devoted to assisting the orientation of Freshmen in the choice of their upper school, discussing with students in Yale College and the Sheffield Scientific School the election of courses and careers, collecting data to aid the Board of Admissions in problems related to methods of selecting students, and in general assembling information that will be helpful in educational and vocational guidance and in the placement of graduating seniors. The establishment of the new department now made possible by Mr. Ludington's gift...
...Alumni Adisory Board, especially its Committee on the Sheffield Scientific School, and the Yale Engineering Association have strongly urged the creation of such a department. The students through the 1927 Board of the "Yale Daily News" and its Chairman. Russell Lee Post, also made recommendations for the initiation of this work. The policies of the department of personnel will be under the control of an Administrative Council consisting of the Director, the Provost of the University, the Deans of the undergraduate schools, the Chairman of the Board of Admissions, and representatives of the Student Councils. The new organization...
...Junior Class baseball team travels to New Haven today to meet the champion Yale class nine, Last fall inter-class competition was inaugurated between the universities when the 1928 football team defeated the 1929 Sheffield Scientific School eleven...