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...Arthur's restaurant in the basement. The president's office, it is understood, will be used as a cloakroom for the inhabitants of the "Gold Coast House". According to present plans, the University will incorporate Claverly, Randolph, and possibly Russell, into one House. What disposition will be made of Benjamin Hyte's tailoring shop has not yet been announced. Bob Lampoon, for so many years the power-behind-the-throne and genuis of all Lampoon wit will be accepted tentatively as janitor of the new eating plant. His continuance in this position is conditional on good behavior...
...which has recently been presented to the Baker Library of the Business School dates from the very early days when fire fighting, instead of being a purely personal matter, began to be conducted by an organized group. The first volunteer fire company was started in Philadelphia about 1740 by Benjamin Franklin and the system soon spread to the rest of the colonies. Before the introduction of these companies every respectable house holder kept a pair of leathern buckets in his room. When a fire occurred the townspeople pulled out the fire engine, a crude, hand-worked pump which they kept...
...office of Pegasus will be filled by Otto Eugene Schoen-Rene '30, of New York City, while James Cambell Weir '30, of Euclid, Ohio will be business manager. Benjamin Patterson Bole, Jr. '30, of Cleveland, Ohio was elected treasurer of the board and John Paul Faude '31, of Cambridge, was reelected circulation manager...
Married. Meraud Guinness, 24, British- American artist, onetime contributor to Vogue, daughter of Benjamin S. Guinness (Dublin brewing, Manhattan banking); to Alvara Guevara, 35, Chilean artist. "We are going to live for art," said...
...raised to unexpected glory when it inherited the famed H. O. Havemeyer collection which includes, besides masterpieces of the earlier schools, the very finest specimens of French impressionism. This single gift, valued at many millions, is the greatest contribution the Metropolitan ever received, with the possible exception of the Benjamin Altman donation...