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James Madison was still living, New York State was about to abolish slavery, passenger railroads were about to be realized when Septimus Winner was born in Philadelphia in 1827. Joseph Winner, his father, made violins and Septimus studied music almost from the cradle. "Sep" got out of the Philadelphia High School at 20, began to give lessons on the banjo, guitar and violin, and married a watchman's daughter named Hannah Guyer. He played at balls and parades, was a member of the Philadelphia Brass Band. Hit by the hard times, he wrote in his diary: "Delightful...
First U.S. institution of higher learning to definitely abolish the torture and absurdities of fraternity Hell. Week with an educational program designed to provide "a conference of the constructive phase of fraternity life serving as a pre-initiation training for pledges." Bit-wigs of many national fraternities and many colleges and universities were on hand to watch his experiment and to voice their approval after the final session. Here COLLEGIATE DIGEST presents exclusive photos of important phases of the conferences...
...changed his tack, orated: "It has been suggested that I tax bachelors, bicycles, cats, dogs, debutantes, fiction, loudspeakers and other things. . . . None of these things is of any use to me." His audience tittered nervously, and shrewd Neville Chamberlain followed up with the handsome announcement that he proposed to abolish the "trousers tax" of 15 shillings a year, which every Briton who employs a manservant has hitherto had to pay. After this he got down to brass tacks and his pop-eyed listeners learned how the British Government proposes to pay for its five-year $7,500,000,000 rearmament...
...France last week. Hotel, restaurant and cafe workers, still waiting to be included in the 40-hour setup, staged a noisy demonstration to protest against employers who refuse to grant shorter working hours during the impending tourist season. To appease them the French Government had already been obliged to abolish the Droit de Tab-lier ("Right of the Apron"), the "privilege" of waiters, hat-checkers, washroom attendants, doorkeepers to pay their employers for allowing them to work for tips. In some swank Paris cafés this has cost waiters as much as 100 francs ($4.43) a week. Bricklayers, plumbers...
...Russia's case. The Premier preferred not to resort to highhandedness, yet it was crystal-clear to the delegates that he had won his battle before he started. The nub of the discussion was whether or not Egypt would be willing to abolish capitulations by slow degrees...