Word: lawyers
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...Herbert Putnam '83, at present librarian of Congress, has been both a lawyer and a librarian. After graduating from Harvard in 1883 he engaged in library work at Minneapolis. In the meanwhile he studied law and began to practice in Boston in 1891. In 1895 he returned to library work, becoming librarian of the Boston Public Library. From this position he was called in 1899 to become Librarian of Congress. Mr. Putnam has received the degree of Litt.D. from Bowdoin in 1898, from Yale in 1907, and from several other colleges. He was born in New York City, September...
...three years been chairman of the Boston School Board. For three years previously he was a member of the Board. Mr. Storrow is also a member of the banking firm of Lee, Higginson & Co. Beefore engaging in the banking business in 1900 he was for ten years a practicing lawyer in Boston. He is at present an Overseer of the University. In addition to the A.B. degree, Mr. Storrow received the degree of LL.B. from the Law School in 1888. While an undergraduate he was a member of the University crew, and was captain of the winning crew...
...condition. He was a man of great ability, with a thorough knowledge of the duties of this office. Grover Cleveland was a Democrat whose power lay in his conservatism. Whatever he did, he took the consequences for. Mr. Harrison, who was our next President, was a clear-minded, clever lawyer, but narrow and bigoted in religious matters. Mr. Wise first met William McKinley in Congress. His chief fault was his inability to free himself from the influences about him. The rise of President Roosevelt to power has been entirely due to his aggressiveness. Mr. Wise's acquaintance with the next...
...Rail-road Commission, C. C. Burlingham of New York, receiver of the Westinghouse Company, Judge C. M. Hough of the U. S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, F. A. Cleveland of the New York Bureau of Municipal Research, and G. W. Wickersham, the New York lawyer...
...Augustus Everett Willson, Kentuckian by birth and residence. Harvard Bachelor of Arts in 1869, a trusted and respected lawyer, in politics a Republican in a Democratic State, elected governor of Kentucky in 1907 for four years, after an energetic and troublous contest, a fearless, honest and disinterested public servant...