Word: thomson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...hours later the long arm of the British secret service had reached out and seized him. For months Mr. Basil Thomson, Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard, had been waiting for Sir Roger to appear. During the course of the trial before Lord Chief Justice Reading,* Mr. Thomson was not only instrumental in securing the conviction and subsequent execution of Sir Roger Casement, but rose to such prominence himself that he was knighted, and then made Director of Intelligence of the British secret service. Since that day he has been a symbol to Britons of the maintenance of law and order...
...other results of the Sophomore managerial competition, which has been held for the last six weeks, are as follows: Mason Bacheller Wells '28, of Southbridge, was appointed manager of the 150-pound crews: and Paul Thomson Haskell Jr. '28, of Philadelphia, Pa., was made class crew manager...
Later, the congress listened to the man whom Sir Basil Thomson of Scotland Yard called "the best scientifically equipped man in the police profession." This was Dr. Salvatore Ottolenghi, who established the first police school in the world...
Compositions by Professor Edward Ballantine '07 will be played by Mr. W. C. Heihman '00, C. T. Leonard 2G, Virgil G. Thomson '23, and G. A. Brown '25. M. L. Brown '25, who was a factor in the success of the Hasty Pudding show, will sing and the program includes several other numbers of interest...
...bearing on the quality of the performance. After all, the function of the critic, as Mr. Thompson has pointed out, is to comment as impartially as is humanly possible, praising where praise is due and condemning where condemnation can be of help for the future. If Mr. Virgil Thomson thought that the playing of the Orchestra in Brattle Hall was bad, there is no reason on earth why Mr. Thomson should not have said so, and the reception of the Orchestra in Springfield is quite beside the point. The Pierian may have played badly in Brattle Hall (and I think...