Word: wilson
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Repertory Theatre--"Rip Van Winkle", with Francis Wilson...
...disposal of the League Secretariat, and that the rest be used to extend the Geneva Golf Club's course and to assist impecunious undersecretaries to join the club. Viscount Cecil added that the ?1000 represented part of the $25,000 peace prize awarded to him by the Woodrow Wilson Foundation two years...
...joined the British Foreign Office and served successively as Confidential Secretary to Sir Edward Grey, Herbert Asquith and Arthur Balfour. From 1912 to 1915 he was one of the Private Secretaries to Premier Asquith. From then on until 1919 he was Private Secretary to Foreign Secretary Balfour. Then President Wilson secured his appointment as Secretary General to the League of Nations, and he created and organized the entire Secretariat, which has not a little influence as the permanently functioning mechanism which must handle without friction the detail work of the League...
...public utility into the bargain. The real issue is whether American colleges shall remain colleges in the older meaning of the word, or whether they shall cease to be such, to become the modern counterpart of the Roman circus as dispensers of spectacular entertainment to the public. Woodrow Wilson once said with truth that athletics were the "side shows of academic life". Today football tends to become the main show. Good sense calls loudly for a return to proper relations between football and scholarship at Harvard...
Repertory Theatre--"Rip Van Winkle", with Francis Wilson...