Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Mexico during Pershing's Punitive Expedition, in Washington as Chief of the War Plans Division of the General Staff during the greatest war of all. In peace, he served as instructor at West Point, as engineer of waterways at Louisville, Nashville, Chattanooga, as the builder of Wilson Dam in Alabama. Recently he has commanded Fort Davis in the Canal Zone...
Chairman, Professor G. G. Wilson; Treasurer, W. J. Bingham '16; C. G. Chase '30; Dean G. H. Chase '96; R. H. Holt '11; James Jackson '04; A. S. Johnson '85; James Roosevelt '30; George Wigglesworth...
...Harvard Law School. From March, 1926, until June, 1927, a large corps of workers set forth to graduates of the Harvard Law School, and to other lawyers and laymen throughout the country the national need for a reexamination of our legal system. This corps of workers, led by Mr. Wilson M. Powell, '96, LL. B. '98, a prominent New York attorney, produced the funds wherewith Harvard's research and library facilities were enlarged and her graduate work was made a new and growing feature of the School...
James B. Hedges, who received his doctor's degree at Harvard in 1924, will be attached to the University for the whole year as lecturer on History. Arthur McC. Wilson, instructor in History at Grinnell College, comes here as an exchange lecturer from Grinnell. He received his Litt, B. degree from Oxford, where he was the Rhodes Scholar from South Dakota...
...matter to the courts, and lived the kind of life so many others are living today? What is the answer of the Church to that? . . ." Nellie Melba (Mrs. Nellie Porter Armstrong), as everyone knows, invented her professional name, using the first letters of her native Melbourne. Florence Mary Wilson, a compatriot, did the same with "Australia," dubbed herself Austral shortly before she made her debut at London's Covent Garden. That was seven years ago. Since then, in England and the U. S., she has won great applause in concerts, oratorios, operas...