Word: provost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...five students suspended were connected with the National Student League, and according to Dr. Ernest Moore, provost of the university, were guilty of attempting "to destroy the university by handing it over to an organized group of Communist students." Dr. Moore further charged that the quintet had attempted to maintain an open forum which had "inclined toward radicalism...
Last week, too, Lazarus was no longer in the shabby little laboratory on the University of California campus where he had tasted four minutes of death. He was in the Cornish home in Berkeley, where Dr. Cornish had taken him when the uni-versity provost asked him to vacate. University officials apparently had been displeased by the country-wide attention attracted by the experiment...
...Last week the Boston Transcript reported that President Angell will retire "probably on or about his 66th birthday in 1935," may be succeeded by the university's Provost, Historian Charles Seymour, 48, author of The Intimate Papers of Colonel House. In New Haven, this rumor was dismissed with the firm expectation that President Angell would continue active for at least four years...
...make provision for the sufferers in the State and the Federal Government refuses to aid, I shall invoke the powers I hold and shall declare martial law. ... A lot of people who are now fighting [relief] measures because they happen to possess considerable wealth will be brought in by provost guard and be obliged to give up more than they would now. There is not going to be misery in this State if I can humanly prevent it. . . Unless the Federal and State governments act to insure against recurrence of the present situation, I hope the present system of government...
Celebrating the centenary, Prince George of England and the Lord Provost of Edinburgh led a procession from St. Giles's Cathedral to the Scott Monument in Princes Street. In Waverley Market, school children performed a masque based upon the Waverley Novels. Miss Patricia Scott, great-great-great-granddaughter, unveiled a memorial in Galashiels, across the River Tweed from Abbotsford. Sir Robert Home, onetime Chancellor of the Exchequer, made a speech extolling Scott's "shining immortality." From Galashiels, whither went many a Scottish pilgrim, was broadcast a musical version of the Lay of the Last Minstrel. In Dryburgh Abbey...