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...Park High School field. They will leave Chicago, Saturday night, November 22, and will arrive at the Oakland Pier in California on Tuesday morning, November 25. A connecting ferry will take the team to San Francisco, and from this point they will take busses to the Benjamin Franklin Hotel at San Mateo, where they will remain until the game on Saturday...
...still remains. Brown Buddies. The opinion that Bill Robinson, "The Dark Cloud of Joy," is the world's greatest tap-dancer, announced at a recent convention of the American Association of Dance Masters (TIME, Sept. 8), is shared by many. For more than 30 years he pranced around Benjamin Franklin Keith's vaudeville circuit. Two years ago he entered musi-comedy with an appearance in Blackbirds of 1928. If he was not the first man to clog up and down a set of stairs, he is certainly the foremost practitioner of that routine. The later or developed Robinson...
...Benjamin M. Squires of Chicago, Illinois, is announced as the holder of the Wertheim Fellowship, for research in labor problems. Dr. Squires is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin, and holds the degree of Ph.D. from Columbia University...
...news item dated January 25, 1764 describes the great fire which destroyed Harvard Hall, "only one of our ancient buildings which still remained, and the repository of our most valuable treasures", the Public Library, and the Philosophical Apparatus. Among the authentic documents there is a letter from Benjamin Franklin to Thomas Hancock written September 11, 1755 proposing a general subscription for the benefit of the Library, and enclosing his own subscription of four pistoles...
...Bingham spoke from sounder ground when he stated the Harvard policy, and Captain Benjamin Ticknor, the varsity's all-American center, supported him. It is the Harvard idea to get along without rah-rahism. Let men take up a sport because they like it, see the good of it, and wish to contribute of their best to it. On that basis, as Ticknor rightly said. Harvard's athletes have always shown on the field a remarkable amount of team spirit. But the idea that spectators can win games by the intensity of their gaze and the power of their lungs...