Word: provost
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...parents began to hear reports of a plan to liquidate their institution. Reason: T. C.'s Horace Mann School,* a demonstration school less progressive than Lincoln, had been running large deficits (now aggregating some $240,000) because of Lincoln's competition. A T. C. committee headed by Provost Milton Del Manzo was reported planning to merge the two schools and to scrap most of the progressive features of Lincoln's program...
...American Committee of Management is composed of President Conant, Dean Hanford, Jerome D. Greene '34, Secretary to the Corporation representing Harvard; and President Charles Seymour, Provost Edgar S. Furniss and Carl A. Lohman, representing Yale...
...hunting mill he had fled four years before, he had recommendations few job seekers could offer-from U. S. Admiral Harry Yarnell of the Asiatic Fleet, the Governor-General of Australia, the Prime Minister of New Zealand, the First Lord of the British Admiralty, the Lord Provost of Glasgow, even from the Lord Mayor of London himself, on Mansion House stationery. But most highly prized was one on the chaste paper of Lambeth Palace, a character from the Archbishop of York himself, a dignitary, says Long, who draws quite a lot of water in England...
...hundred and nineteen participants in the third annual Yale-Harvard-Princeton Conference on Public Affairs, including 29 prominent guests, will be welcomed at 1:00 o'clock today by Provost Edgar S. Furnise of Yale, replacing President Seymour, who has a sprained ankle...
Storm in a Teacup (Alexander Korda) is the tidiest, canniest, best-played bit of heather comedy to come from across the sea since René Clair made The Ghost Goes West. Provost Gow of Baikie (Cecil Parker), treading pompously toward Parliament, stumbled over Mrs. Honoria Hegarty's (Sara Allgood's) dog. Patsy, and her without the money to buy him a license at all. With the twists given this incident by a bright young journalist (Rex Harrison), Patsy's grief is heard all the way to London, and the resulting sympathy nearly forces Provost Gow into...