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Amherst Alumnus Calvin Coolidge went to see Amherst and Williams play their 50th game, looked mildly pleased when Amherst won the game and the "Little Three'?" championship...
With many bottles of sekt (champagne), former officers of the Imperial German Army last week celebrated the 50th birthday of long-necked Friedrich Wilhelm, onetime Crown Prince of Germany. Granting an interview to the foreign Press for the first time since his return from exile (1923), he said: "... I cannot avoid hitting straight from the shoulder. . . . Have you proud and free Americans any inkling of what it means to make a proud people submit to special laws and regulations...
...Howard Atwood Kelly, famed Baltimore surgeon, gynecologist and roent-genologist, having passed 74 and being about to round out his 50th year in the practice of medicine, has been combing his memory for injustices to his fellow men. He found two. One is 37 years old, the other 47. Last week he presented them at the confessional of U. S. Medicine, the Journal of the American Medical Association and prayed forgiveness...
...given him no more than he earned: A.B., M.A., Ph.D. Some day soon the alumni hope to confer upon him a "supreme honorary degree." In the meantime, however, they pay him high personal tribute, at the Butler-Day banquet which marks Dr. Butler's 30th anniversary as president, 50th as alumnus, and 70th as a very human being...
...itself on being well-organized, up-to-date. Its Nobel Prize-winning president, Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, helps out not onl- by organizing but also by getting in the public prints (Alumni Day next Feb. 12 will all but apotheosize him, celebrating the 70th year of his age, his 50th as a Columbia alumnus, his 30th as president). Last week Columbia was once more busy with what Dr. Butler calls "the newest type of university organization." Announced as opening next autumn was a New College, subsidiary of Teachers College. New College, which will have its own faculty but exist...