Word: governor
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1900-1909
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
After being graduated from Harvard in 1897, Mr. Winthrop entered the Law School, from which he was admitted to the bar in 1899. A year later he became private secretary to Mr. Taft, while governor of the Philippine Islands. From 1903 to 1904, Mr. Winthrop was judge of the Court of the First Instance in the Philippines. He was then appointed governor of Porto Rico, which position he held until 1907, when he became assistant secretary of the United States Treasury...
...governor sent out to a people must rule for the benefit of the governed and must understand them. Although we take great care in the selection of the men who are to fill the political positions in this country, we send young and inexperienced men out to the Philippines. Lord Cromer was in Egypt for 18 years; we have had four governors of the islands in eight years. The news that we receive from the East is neither complete nor exact. Only the reports that are allowed to be sent are what we get in this country. There...
...Governor Curtis Guild, Jr., '81 supplemented President Eliot's talk with an account of the progress made in the desired direction in Massachusetts...
...conditions and requirements for competing for the Bowdoin prizes for dissertations in English, have been posted in the south entry of University Hall and will be posted in various of the other college buildings Monday. The prizes were founded by Governor Bowdoin in the eighteenth century and have been taken by many famous men, among whom is Ralph Waido Emerson. The fund for these prizes has been increased in recent years by a descendant of Governor Bowdoin so that now the first prize for undergraduates is $250. There are also two second prizes of $100 each...
...degree from the University of Virginia; fourteen years later he was appointed United States district attorney for the Eastern district of Virginia, by President Arthur, and was also elected to Congress from Virginia on the Republican ticket as representative at large. After his defeat in the election for governor of the state in 1885, he moved to New York to practice law. Mr. Wise has written several books on different subjects...