and `` Marmee '' March, like Sophie Szold, was the competent manager of her brood of girls, of whom the Marches had only four to the Szolds' five.

After all, Woodruff owned a competent printing plant and was the logical man for the job.

Brian Thayer was a thoroughly honest and competent administrator.

Beauregard, who was supposed to attract recruits because of his victories early in the war and give Johnston a competent subordinate.

As William says, " he was a man of wisdom and discretion, fully competent to hold the reins of government in the kingdom.

The Supreme Court held that for the plea to be accepted, the defendant must have been advised by a competent lawyer who was able to inform the individual that his best decision in the case would be to enter a guilty plea.

Bertelli was very keen to race his cars and he was a very competent driver.

In the pontificate of Pius II, their number, which had been fixed at twenty-four, had overgrown to such an extent as to diminish considerably the individual remuneration, and, as a consequence, able and competent men no longer sought the office, and hence the old style of writing and expediting the Bulls was no longer used, to the great injury of justice, the interested parties, and the dignity of the Holy See.

On the battlefield, it is probably fair to say, Charles was comparable in skill and style to Sir Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington-quite conservative and yet exceedingly competent.

In addition to de facto renunciation through apostasy, heresy, or schism, the Roman Catholic Church envisaged from 1983 to 2009 the possibility of formal defection from the Church through a decision manifested personally, consciously and freely, and in writing, to the competent church authority, who was then to judge whether it was genuinely a case of " true separation from the constitutive elements of the life of the Church ... ( by ) an act of apostasy, heresy or schism.

Thessaly was widely known for producing competent cavalrymen, and later experiences in wars both with and against the Persians taught the Greeks the value of cavalry in skirmishing and pursuit.

During the Great Depression, with funding for the public colleges severely constrained, limits were imposed on the size of the colleges ' free Day Session, and tuition was imposed upon students deemed " competent " but not academically qualified for the day program.

He was the first phonetician to produce, in his " Sechuana Reader ", a competent description of an African tone language, including the concept of downstep.

The new command came with a competent Flag Lieutenant, Charles Dix, but Beatty was not happy with him, and anyway the former commander of the squadron wanted Dix to accompany him to his new command.

Although Haeckel's ideas are important to the history of evolutionary theory, and he was a competent invertebrate anatomist most famous for his work on radiolaria, many speculative concepts that he championed are now considered incorrect.

He was a competent geometer, but more importantly, he was a superb commentator on the works that preceded him.

Published in late 1939, biographer Philip Heselton noted that the book was " a very competent first work of fiction ", with strong allusions to the build-up which proceeded World War II.

When a group or organization was thus declared criminal, the competent national authority of any signatory had the right to bring persons to trial for membership in that organisation, with the criminal nature of the group or organisation assumed proved.

He was competent and forceful, and many considered him a sterling candidate for the presidency, despite his elitist background.

He was known to have good organisational skills and for selecting highly competent subordinates, such as Reinhard Heydrich in 1931.

Albert Speer notes that though Himmler seemed pedantic and insignificant on the surface, he was a good decision maker, had a talent for selecting highly competent staff, and successfully inserted the SS into every aspect of daily life.

The former Labour MP Tony Banks said of Major in 1994 that " He was a fairly competent chairman of Housing on Lambeth Council.

The term " ataraxy " was coined by the neurologist Howard Fabing and the classicist Alister Cameron to describe the observed effect of psychic indifference and detachment in patients treated with chlorpromazine.

The classicist Roger Bagnall estimated that there was one bureaucrat for every 5 – 10, 000 people in Egypt based on 400 or 800 bureaucrats for 4 million inhabitants ( no one knows the population of the province in 300 AD ; Strabo 300 years earlier put it at 7. 5 million, excluding Alexandria ).

The classicist Barry B. Powell suggests that the Greek alphabet was invented ca.

Karl August Böttiger ( June 8, 1760 – November 17, 1835 ) was a German archaeologist and classicist, and a prominent member of the literary and artistic circles in Weimar and Jena.

His pupil, who edited many of Böttiger's works after his death, was the German classicist Karl Julius Sillig.

This was the pioneering work of Marc Fumaroli who, building on the work of classicist and Neo-Latinist Alain Michel and French scholars such as Roger Zuber, published his famed Age de l ' Eloquence ( 1980 ), was one of the founders of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric and was eventually elevated to a chair in rhetoric at the prestigious College de France.

Frederic William Henry Myers ( 6 February 1843, Keswick, Cumberland – 17 January 1901, Rome ) was a poet, classicist, philologist, and a founder of the Society for Psychical Research.

An acutely gifted classicist, he came to the head of a business that was successful in traditional terms but now moved into uncharted terrain.

According to the early 1700s classicist, Richard Bentley he was an Asiatic Greek ; according to the 19th-century classicist Fridericus Jacob an African.

Typical of the era is the long and detailed study of William Ewart Gladstone, who among his many talents was a trained classicist.

Allan David Bloom ( September 14, 1930 – October 7, 1992 ) was an American philosopher, classicist, and academic.

Its most notable member was the classicist William Kelly ( 1821 – 1906 ).

Josias Simmler ( Josiah Simler, Simlerus ) ( 6 November 1530 – 2 July 1576 ), was a Swiss theologian and classicist, author of the first book relating solely to the Alps.

Linacre was also a medical scientist and a classicist, and the College aims to reflect his multi-disciplinary character.

Sir Ronald Syme, OM, FBA ( 11 March 1903 – 4 September 1989 ) was a New Zealand-born historian and classicist.

The style was roughly divided into two subcategories: conservative, ( neo -) classicist painting, and generally left-wing, politically motivated Verists.

He was helped by the classicist Johann Friedrich Christ, who encouraged him and loaned him Greek and Latin texts.

Landor was a classicist whose poetry forms a link between the Augustans and Robert Browning, who much admired it.

Leo Strauss ( September 20, 1899 – October 18, 1973 ) was a German-American political philosopher and classicist who specialized in classical political philosophy.

Robinson was an accomplished classicist, winning Sir William Browne's Medal for the best Latin ode in 1801.

Johann Gottfried Schweighauser ( 1776 – 1844 ), son of the classicist Johann Schweighauser was also a distinguished scholar and archaeologist, joint-author with M. Golbéry of Antiquités de l ' Alsace ( 1828 ).

The classicist A. F. Scholfield was Librarian from 1923 to 1949.