Word: successor
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Washington & Jefferson College (Washington, Pa.) inaugurated a new president ast week. Year ago the students struck, announced emphatically that they did not like the policies (in regard to campus garb and athletics) of President Simon Strousse Baker (TIME, March 30). Small, oldish President Baker resigned. His successor pleased nearly everyone. Rev. Dr. Ralph Cooper Hutchison is tall, dark, one of the youngest college presidents (34) in the U. S. Born in Colorado, he went to Lafayette College (1918), spent seven months in naval aviation, went to Haryard, Pennsylvania, Princeton Theological Seminary. He was ordained in 1922. worked for the Presbyterian...
...Hamelin" and "You're Blase," smart tunes made right in London. In Paris, people go to swank Monseigneur especially to hear Lucienne Boyer sing "Parlez-Moi d'Amour," a.soft, fragile French song. In Berlin Tenor Richard Tauber, the monocle man. is making "Du bist mein Traum" a worthy successor to "Dein ist mein Ganzes Herz...
...that department. During subsequent periods Harvard has stood for Literature, Freshman Dormitories, Astronomy, House Plan, according to the energy of the faculty or the benevolence of donors. Currently Harvard is beginning to stand for Physics. President Lowell, on the eve of his retirement, apparently has determined that his successor shall not have the props pulled from under that branch of knowledge. If good equipment will keep good physicists at Harvard, they now have...
...introduction of "wet" collodion plates brought new hope, and by their use in 1857 George P. Bond, the son and successor of William Bond, succeeded in photographing stars of the sixth magnitude, which includes all visible to the naked eye. About one hundred plates of this period are used in the Harvard collection in good condition...
...Corporation attended a luncheon in the old dining room on the 20th floor, a room spoken of (mostly by those not important enough to dine in it) as the "Doughnut Room." Waiters hovered anxiously near the table, for they had heard by the house grapevine that the successor of resigning President Farrell was to be announced. When, in the "Doughnut Room," it was heard that William A. Irvin had been chosen by the directors to become president of the Corporation, the waiters huddled together. "Which one is he?" they whispered. Up on the 17th and 18th floors the news...