Word: trust
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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Wallace Brett Donham '98, vice-president of the Old Colony Trust Company of Boston, has been appointed Dean of the Graduate School of Business Administration. This announcement was made last night at the close of a meeting of the Board of Overseers. Mr. Donham succeeds Edwin F. Gay, who recently resigned his Harvard position to become president of the New York Evening Post Company...
After his graduation from College Mr. Donham entered the Law School and received his degree in 1901, whereupon he entered the legal department of the Old Colony Trust Company. He has been for many years the vice-president of the company, and he is now director in several other large concerns, including the Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, the Clinchfield Coal Company, the Haverhill Gaslight Company, and the Raymond and Whitcomb Company. He is president of the Dallas Electric Company. During the war he acted for a time as assistant executive manager of the Massachusetts Committee of Public Safety. More recently...
...Never did I sneer at the farewell address; but I believe that the greatness of Washington was due to his looking the facts of his day in the face and determining his conduct thereby, instead of by utterances, however wise, of a hundred and fifty years before. I will trust the American people not to mistake short-signtednss for patriotism or narrow-mindedness for love of country...
...University toward the Boston riots is a fitting corollary to the part played by graduates and undergraduates in the troubled times last week. The great courage shown by Harvard volunteer policemen in facing the mob of hoodlums has given the University and college men in general a position of trust in the minds of law-abiding citizens. The latter will realize more and more that in education and in the spirit of the atmosphere created at Harvard and other colleges lies the hope of a safe passage at this stormy period for the ship of state...
...Many of the old practices are happily,--and unfortunately done away with. The Seniors no longer dance around the Class Tree, the Ivy Orator has nothing to do with the planting of vines; the ugliest man in the class is no longer presented with a jack knife. We trust, however, that the spirit is much the same today in the University as it was in the College of a century...