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...does this apply only to the president. It concerns the election of the other officers as well. These offices present splendid opportunities to the men who receive them, in giving them a chance to exert their personal influence in an official capacity. The CRIMSON trusts that 1912 will seek successfully for the best...
Dean Christian was elected dean of the Medical School on October 12 by the Corporation and his election was confirmed by the Board of Overseers two days later. Because of the remarkable opportunities offered by the splendid equipment of the new school the choice was awaited with great interest. A man of great administrative ability was needed, who had a thorough training in medicine. Dr. Christian had already established an excellent record of work in the Boston hospitals. He is an unusually young man for the position of head of the Medical School. Born in Lynchburg...
...lives of these men, we see splendid devotion to the good of others and a total disregard of themselves. In the words of Charles Lowell, "The one thing we must not do is to think of ourselves...
...early days of service that we are to hear tonight in the Union, of the days and months when still a young man, he experienced the tedium of the camp, the fatigue of the march, and the danger of the battlefield. It should provide a splendid occasion to gain an insight into the character and ideals of the man, who has survived the War these forty years a model of devotion to his country and his College, while he reminisces about the days...
...when their interest will sag, owing to the young author's too great love of mere characteristic detail; then again, they will be thrilled by the strength of many of the scenes, for with all of his youthful crudities on his head, this lad has in his play some splendid passages of tense and virile drama-and above all the work of Mrs. Fiske as the converted scrubwoman and of Holbrook Blinn as her brutal convict lover will lay them under one of those spells which are found in the theatre nowadays only once in a blue moon...