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...clock--Stadium Exercises: Ivy Oration, Geoffrey McNair Gates; Cheering, Song by Glee Club: Presentation of Class Banner to 1930: Stinging of "Fair Harvard"; Confetti Battle...
...prodigious series of victories was not won even largely by force of arms. Chiang is the first modern generalissimo to advance with a veritable army of spies and propaganda agents proceeding his military columns months beforehand, filtering into the enemy camp, and persuading enemy soldiers to desert to the banner of "China for the Chinese." Withal, though he is careful to wear no distinguishing mark on his uniform, Chiang is a conqueror of dominating mien, not a comradely Bolshevik backslapper. He has publicly disavowed Bolshevism; and he is much more dangerous to the Great Powers than if he were...
...orchestra. Then came an invocation: "Ye Portals bright . . . unite us all to worship at beauty's throne." Then a dedication. All was solemn. The audience was awed. The "cathedral" looked every cent of its $10,000,000 advertised cost. The Roxy Symphony Orchestra burst into the "Star-Spangled Banner." The Mayor sprang to his feet. The audience sprang as promptly as possible considering its lap cluttered with hats, coats, canes...
Finally, at the stroke of noon, the Speaker's gavel fell; the Navy Band struck up The Star Spangled Banner, followed by A Perfect Day, My Old Kentucky Home, The Sidewalks of New York Slowly, the House chamber emptied. . . . The janitors went to work...
...Wilson, younger brother of the late Woodrow Wilson. When big brother became President, little brother agreed not to seek political employment. Without avail, friends of the family urged that Joseph be appointed secretary of the Senate or Postmaster at Nashville, Tenn. Joseph, onetime city editor of the Nashville Banner, even refused to act as Washington correspondent for several newspapers. He died at the age of 59-a successful manager for the Maryland Casualty Co. People said he looked like the War President, except that his features were harder, and genius had not touched his brow...