Word: tigert
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spectacle--at least that is the conclusion reached in the current March of Time on the screen, from which COLLEGIATE DIGEST presents these exclusive photos. Most important of the football subsidization developments was the now historic Atlanta meeting of the Southeastern Conference, at which Florida's President John J. Tigert presented and had approved his resolution that athletic ability be recognized as a determining factor in the allotment of student scholarships, loans and jobs...
...Federal service; 195 are in law. But the rise of pedagogs to high government positions under the Roosevelt Administration may point toward the fruition of Cecil Rhodes's idea, for the biggest group of Rhodesmen (40%) have become educators. Eight are college presidents, 13 deans, one (John James Tigert) was U. S. Commissioner of Education from 1921 to 1928. Other distinguished Rhodesmen include Minister to Austria Gilchrist Baker Stockton, onetime Amateur Boxing Champion Edward Francis ("Eddie") Eagan (now a lawyer), Rev. Arthur Lee Kinsolving of Boston, Stanley Kuhl Hornbeck who advises Secretary Hull on the Far East, Police Commissioner...