Word: scott
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Comparing Herbert Hoover with General Wood as a presidential candidate, Professor Austin W. Scott '09 of the Law School declares that where General Wood has resorted to platitudes Mr. Hoover as clearly defined his position in regard to the two great questions of the day--foreign relations and the labor situation...
...Hoover," writes Professor Scott, "is not a politician; but he is a statesman, a statesman, I believe, of the first rank. Among the potential presidential candidates I cannot see that there is one who begins to approach him in qualifications for the executive office...
Part of this failure can be explained through Mr. Sabatini's mode of presentation. He has chosen the most difficult of all modes--the direct. Torquemada speaks for Torquemada, fully and at length. The great men hold the center of the stage. Scott, Hugo, Dumas, all of the legion who have succeeded in popularizing history avoided this method as the devil. Minor figures, though principal characters in the story held the public eye, while the major figures in the world's history appeared and disappeared in the background. Yet there is more historical truth, more conviction, more delineation of character...
...prize for graduation theses in the Business School has been granted to Owen Winchester Graves, A.B., Acadia College, 1914, M.B.A., Harvard University 1920, for his thesis on "Prerequisites and Factors to the Most Effective Use of Works Committees." The 2nd prize has been awarded to Howard Scott Noble, A.B., Simpson College, 1914, M.B.A., Harvard University, 1920, for his thesis on "Methods of Determining Cost of Sales in Distribution of Automobiles...
...remaining candidates all have had previous experience in preparatory schools. R. Lancaster '20 caught at Middlesex, C. F. Havermeyer '21 at Groton, G. McD. Weeks '21, at Milton, C. Stillman '22 at St. Mark's, and J. DeC. Scott '22 at Worcester Academy...