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While Mittelbach is in despair he receives a call from an old college friend, Dr. Gehring, who wishes an interview with the senator in behalf of a Miss Petzoldt with whom the senator's son Oscar is in love, much against the will of his parents. Gehring opens the eyes of the young wife, Agathe, to her real duty toward her husband. Agathe's sister, Stephanie, has been in love with Gehring for a long time. After an amusing scene of embarrassing complications, Gehring discovers that he in turn loves Stephanie; but trouble is feared from the senator...
Professor Sanger has just finished an investigation of fire-proofing processes which he has been carrying on for the past year in behalf of the United States Navy Department...
...Princeton and Harvard at the Intercollegiate Chess Tournament Rice was appointed to make arrangements for the match. Owing to the absence of any official, previous to Rice's appointment, properly commissioned to arrange the match there has been some delay in sending the challenge. The challenge is sent in behalf of Yale, Columbia, Princeton and Harvard to the universities of Oxford and Cambridge proposing that a fourth chess match for the International Universities Chess Trophy be played by cable. The match is to be played during the spring of 1902 under the same conditions as heretofore...
President Eliot followed the reading of the address of congratulation with these words, spoken on behalf of the Eastern Colleges and Universities, and of the educational world in general...
...pleasant to record such an united effort in behalf of Mother Harvard, for she exists only through the constant labour and bounty of her friends. It is her whole mission in life to pour out her blessings on us, and we as grateful children, can do no less than hold up and strengthen her hands, thus emulating the example of her friends outside, who have of late showered her with gifts in so splendid and thoughtful a fashion...