Historians of the College credit Thomas W. Haught, an 1894 graduate of the Seminary, 20 year academic dean ( 1909 – 1929 ), long-time faculty member, and three-time acting president, as one of Wesleyan's most influential champions of academic excellence.

* Booker T. Washington's 1909 Tour of Virginia on the newly completed Virginian Railway

It was Edison's format, however, that became first the dominant standard and then the " official " standard of the newly formed Motion Picture Patents Company, a trust established by Edison, which agreed in 1909 to what would become the standard: 35 mm gauge, with Edison perforations and a 1. 3 aspect ratio.

Sahachiro Hata discovered the antisyphilitic activity of this compound in 1909 in the laboratory of Paul Ehrlich, during a survey of hundreds of newly synthesized organic arsenical compounds.

In 1909 the newly created Promontory-Curlew Land Company purchased the Promontory Land and Livestock Company's Utah and Idaho land holdings.

Ephrata was officially incorporated on June 21, 1909 and was given the county seat for the newly created Grant County.

The Clinchfield Railroad ran an excursion train over the newly laid rails to Spartanburg on October 23, 1909.

In 1909, Major ( later Colonel Sir ) Vernon Kell became director of the newly formed Secret Intelligence Bureau ( SIB ), created as a response to growing public opinion that all Germans living in England were spies.

In April 1909 D ' Arcy was made a director of the newly founded Anglo-Persian Oil Company ( APOC ) which would later become British Petroleum.

Upon his return in 1909, he travelled to Paris, where he enrolled in the newly founded École Nationale Superieure d ' Ingenieurs en Construction Aéronautique ( now the École Nationale Supérieure de l ' Aéronautique et de l ' Espace, also known as SUPAERO ).

These problems would not come to fruition until Rutherford had left office, however ; in the short-term, the government's involvement in the telephone business helped it to a sweeping victory in the 1909 election, in which the Liberals won 37 of 41 seats in the newly expanded legislature.

In the 1909 The Scheme for Girl Guides, the uniform for the newly emerging movement was given as:

In 1909, the last prisoner left the Territorial Prison for the newly constructed Arizona State Prison Complex located in Florence, Arizona.

The station opened on December 16, 1909 as an intermediate station on the newly opened Shinagawa-Karasumori section of the national railway.

The JR station opened on December 16, 1909 as an intermediate station on the newly opened Shinagawa to Karasumori section of the Japanese National Railways.

In Ace of Spies, biographer Robin Bruce Lockhart recounts Reilly's alleged involvement in obtaining a newly developed German magneto at the first Frankfurt International Air Show (" Internationale Luftschiffahrt-Ausstellung ") in 1909.

The newly formed club initially played at Milhome Bank and later at Devonshire Park, finally settling at their current home Brunton Park in 1909.

Since at least 1914, if not 1909, Hesse had been encountering the newly growing field of psychoanalysis as it moved through the German intellectual circles.

The position of Secretary of State for Canada had no relation to that of Secretary of State for External Affairs except for the period from 1909 until 1912 when the Secretary of State for Canada ( Charles Murphy under Sir Wilfrid Laurier and William James Roche under Sir Robert Borden ) was responsible for the newly created Department of External Affairs.

He worked with Count Aymar de la Baume Pluvinel observing Mars from the newly built observatory on Pic du Midi in 1909.

The team played in the Rhineland-Westphalia FA and won its first championship there in 1907, before joining the newly formed Westdeutsche Fussball Verband in 1909.

By 1909, Chacel's mother enlisted her at Madrid's Escuela de artes y oficios to study drawing, but, soon after, Chacel followed her teacher, Fernanda Francés, to the newly built Escuela del hogar y Profesional de la Mujer, also in Madrid.

Today Eidsbugarden appears as a rather large mountain tourist centre, with a newly restored hotel from 1909 that reopened in the summer of 2007, a Norwegian Mountain Touring Association ( DNT ) cabin and approximately 160 private huts.

He studied in the Bet El yeshiva in the old city of Jerusalem, well known for the study of kabbalah ; and in 1909, he moved to the newly founded Shoshanim leDavid yeshiva.

In 1909, aged nineteen, he joined the Norwegian Naval Academy and in 1915 the newly formed Royal Norwegian Navy Air Service ( RNoNAS ).

The first step toward Indian self-rule was the appointment of councillors to advise the British viceroy, in 1861 ; the first Indian was appointed in 1909.

* Francis Alexander Anglin ( as Chief Justice, 16 September 1924 – 28 February 1933 ; appointed a Puisne Justice under Prime Minister Laurier, 23 February 1909 )

However, he did so with honors and was appointed Cadet Adjutant ( the second highest position for a cadet ), graduating in 1909 instead of 1908 and receiving his commission as a cavalry officer.

In 1909, Albert Murphree was appointed the second president of the university, and organized several of the colleges of the university, increased enrollment from under 200 to over 2, 000, and he was instrumental in the founding of the Florida Blue Key leadership society.

On June 17, 1911, after he graduated from high school, del Valle received an appointment by George Radcliffe Colton, who served from 1909 to 1913 as the U. S. appointed governor of Puerto Rico, to attend the U. S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

The history of football in Ferrol is associated to the shipbuilding yards, workshops, foundries and drydocks and the British technical advisors ,< ref >" SPANISH NAVY: Huge Contract in British Hands " ( 1909 ) The Manchester Guardian, 1st February 1909, Page 12: Manchester <<... Vickers, Armstrong and Brown ... it has been determined to put down a new shipyard at Ferrol in Spain ... Mr A J Campbell ... has been appointed manager of the Ferrol yard ... Mr Peter Muir ... has been appointed assistant manager.

In 1906 Dalén became chief engineer at the Gas Accumulator Company ( manufacturer and distributor of acetylene ) and in 1909 when AGA was founded, he was appointed the managing director for the company.

* Eugenie Anderson ( 1909 – 1997 ), U. S. Ambassador to Denmark and Bulgaria ; first woman appointed U. S. ambassador

In March 1891, he was appointed General Immigration Agent for the Great Northern Railway with headquarters in Chicago and remained with the railroad until his death in 1909.

By 1909, almost 2 / 3 of the U. S. federal work force was appointed based on merit, that is, qualifications measured by tests.

In 1909 Kenneth Barnes, brother of the Vanbrugh sisters, was appointed principal.

In 1909, on the resignation of Chancellor Bernhard von Bülow, Bethmann Hollweg was appointed to succeed him.

After his return in 1909, he was appointed to command the 13th Vladimir Uhlan Regiment at Mińsk Mazowiecki in Poland.

In 1909, he was appointed commander of the Kure Naval District, and in 1913 became Commander in Chief of the Combined Fleet.

During his reign he visited many parts of northern Portugal, in addition to Spain, France and the United Kingdom, where he was appointed Knight of the Order of the Garter, in November 1909.

In 1909 he succeeded Siegfried Ochs as director of the Rühlscher Oratorienverein in Frankfurt-am-Mein and at 31 was appointed musical director of the municipal orchestra in Wiesbaden ; festivals of modern music ( Richard Strauss, Reger, Mahler, Delius and Arnold Schoenberg ) made Wiesbaden an internationally-renowned centre for music.

He retired into private life, was prevailed upon to return in 1909 as chairman of a commission appointed to investigate the French navy.

In 1909, aged 48, he was promoted again to the rank of Major-General – due to his extensive cavalry experience, was appointed Inspector-General of Cavalry in 1910, with headquarters at Horse Guards, London.

Lange rejoined the Inter-Parliamentary Union in 1909 when he was appointed secretary general of the organization, a position he would retain until 1933.

In 1909 US President Theodore Roosevelt appointed George Washington Goethals chief engineer of the Panama Canal.

On June 30, 1909, Mundelein was appointed Auxiliary Bishop of Brooklyn and Titular Bishop of Loryma by Pope Pius X.