Word: westing
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When Woodrow Wilson resigned in 1910 to enter New Jersey politics, many wanted Dean West for president of the university. A strong faction opposed the appointment, and the trustees compromised on John Grier Hibben...
...Dean West's greater achievement is the persistence of classical teaching in the U. S. When Princeton in 1883 gave him its doctor of philosophy degree, it immediately made him its professor of Latin. A scholar, it was presumed at that time, was a classicist. He knew his humanities and lived by them. A few years, however, and students asked the cash value of Latin and Greek and other "impractical" studies. No humanist, it was argued, ever turned a quick dollar. Professor West cried down the materialists. Classical learning, he contended, was one means if not the only means...
...flew west to Worcester, leaving the East Boston airport about 1.30 o'clock," he said. "The damage to houses and property was very evident from the air, especially along the railroad tracks up the Concord River valley, which we followed after leaving Worcester...
...University schedule follows: January 7, Tufts College; January 14, Columbia at New York; February 11, Springfield; February 18, Army at West Point; February 25, Brown; February 29, M. I. T.; March 3, Williams; and March 10, Yale. The season will close with the New England Intercollegiate Wrestling Championships at Tufts on March...
...University of Pennsylvania soccer team won a hard-earned victory over the Crimson booters, 1 to 0, Saturday in Philadelphia. The only score was made in the third quarter by Lazarus, outside right, who took a pass from West, dribbled down the field to the 10-yard line, and drove the ball into...