Word: tafts
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...first of the eleventh annual series of Silliman Lectures was given on Monday afternoon by Dr. Joseph Paxon Iddings on the subject of the "Phenomena of Volcanism." On Tuesday evening Phi Beta Kappa celebrated its one hundred and thirty-fourth anniversary with a banquet at the Taft Hotel. Twenty-eight members of the Junior class were initiated immediately before the banquet. On the same evening Professor Bliss Perry of Harvard delivered the second of the Bromley Lectures on Journalism, Literature, and Public Affairs...
...alternated with Ordway in most of the games this season will be capable of taking Captain Heron's position at wing. For centre, there are Sproule and Dickey, this year's substitutes, and two other promising freshman candidates, Blossom and Benner, who played excellent hockey at the Taft School. As forward recruits, Spiegle, who was ineligible this year, Bangs, Marlowe and Mudge will be available...
...convention of the Religious Association, which opened Wednesday and closed Sunday. Among the prominent speakers were President Hadley; Charles F. Thwing LL.D., president of Western Reserve University and of the Religious Association; District Attorney Charles S. Whitman of New York; Rev. John R. Mott; Rabbi Wise; Professor William H. Taft...
...36th anniversary dinner of The News was held Saturday night in the ballroom of the Hotel Taft. Nearly 250 guests were entertained. Prominent among the speakers were Norman Hapgood, who described Journalistic ideals; President Hadley, who praised. The News; and Secretary Anson Phelps Stokes, who spoke on Yale Culture. R. A. Douglas, chairman of the out-going board, R. H. Macdonald, Jr., present chairman, and Stoddard King, 1914 managing editor, who acted as toastmaster, were also speakers. The annual banquet of the Courant was held Monday evening in Memorial Hall...
Professor Taft received his A. B. from Yale in 1878, ranking second in a class of 121; he was salutatorian and class orator. He was admitted to the bar in 1880, and from 1892 to 1900 was United States circuit judge of the sixth Judicial Circuit. He was honored with the degree of LL.D. from Yale in 1893, from the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins in 1902, and from Harvard in 1905. From 1904 to 1908 he was Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President Roosevelt, and in 1909 was elected the twenty-seventh president of the United...