Word: specials
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...times," was at pains to secure for him. Although Josiah Quincy had introduced into Harvard College a certain measure of election, this had largely disappeared under the Presidency of Jared Sparks, by 1849, when President Eliot entered the College. He was enabled to give up Greek and specialize in mathematics during his Senior year, and he also "enjoyed special privileges in being admitted to the private laboratory of the young Professor of Chemistry, Josiah P. Cook." He payed special attention to declamation. In spite of difficulty with his eyes during his Junior year, he graduated the second scholar...
...Deans of Harvard University paid a tribute to President Abbott Lawrence Lowell at a special meeting of the several Faculties and Administrative Officers held in the Faculty Room of University Hall yesterday afternoon at 5 o'clock in observance of President Lowell's seventieth birthday...
...Special Jury Named...
...special jury, which will make the award for the advertisement most effective in the use of the Typography, was also appointed, consisting of Joseph M. Bowles of the William Edwin Rudge Company, Printing House of New York; Everett R. Currier, President of Currier and Hartford, Ltd., New York; and D. B. Updike of the Merrymount Press, Boston...
...Oxford undergraduates, and who thereafter served through the war, is able to produce with almost unfailing regularity a handsome and convincing tale of the high adventure. On the other hand, remembering that he spent considerable time in South Africa after taking his degree, and travelled over Europe as a special corespondent and possesses an abiding love for the Scotch moors, his flare for the romantic is not so astonishing...