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...such Oxford occasions memorable remarks often made. In 1864. at the beginning of the evolution controversy (see p. 40), the great Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli exclaimed: "The question is this: Is man an ape or an angel? I, my lord, am on the side of the angels...
...problem of who should be appointed as the new chief of the Internal Revenue Bureau. The incumbent, David H. Blair, had resigned. Among candidates for the vacancy were Charles R. Nash of Pennsylvania, Mr. Mellon's State; E. C. Alvord, Mr. Mellon's legislative adviser; Chairman Benjamin...
Broad jump. Qualifiers--Hill (Southern California), 23 ft. 7 1-2 in.; Herback (Pittsburgh), 23 ft. 7 1-2 in.; Herback (Pittsburgh), 23 ft. 5 1-8 in.; Boyle (Penn), 23 ft. 3 in.; Paul (Southern California), 23 ft. 2 1-2 in.; Dowell (Stanford) 23. ft. 2 in.; Benjamin (Syracuse...
Pending definite news, Senator Edge was internally atwitter over the prospect of being "just across the Channel, Charlie." A somewhat rotund, full-blooded gentleman of 54, with a history-printer's devil to millionaire-statesman-vaguely reminiscent of the first of U. S. ministers to France (Benjamin Franklin), he might feel, if he got the post, that he had earned it. He has worked up the Republican ladder diligently, from clerk in the New Jersey State Senate, to Governor, to the U. S. Senate. His earnestness and lack of poise while speech-making make him accompany his words with...
...Elizabeth P. Sanders, of Baltimore, Maryland will hold the Public Health Fellowship, during the year 1929-30 for the second time. A Shady Hill Research Fellowship in Fine Arts has been awarded to Benjamin Rowland Jr. '28, of Southampton, Pennsylvania, at present a student in the Department of Fine Arts...