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...27th anniversary of the founding of the Volunteers of America was celebrated in a meeting which packed the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan, and brought in thousands of testimonials from friends of the organization. (The Volunteers are led by General and Mrs. Ballington Booth, and are not to be confused with the Salvation Army, started in 1865 in London by General William Booth...
...work which the Volunteers have done for fallen women and for ex-convicts is most real, and Mrs. Booth disclosed that "her boys in Sing-Sing" had not forgotten her when she appeared on the platform with their bunch of flowers as her corsage. The unfortunate rivalry which exists between this organization of Volunteers and the Salvation Army does not blind men to the fact that they are both doing a work which the churches do all too little, and in this celebration honor has been given where honor...
...courses at Columbia; since they were so fortunate as to live in New York; then, to subscribe to a correspondence course; next to buy Dr. Eliot's "Five-Foot Shelf". Since they asked for advice about books, Dartmouth sent a list of 155, dating from Walter Scott to Booth Tarkington--recommending Barrie and Shaw especially. President Hibben suggested, among others, "Introduction to Political Science" by Pettell, "The Life of Abraham Lincoln" by Lord Charnwood, and "Literary Taste and How to Form It," by Arnold Bennett...
Throughout the entire contest Sawyer and Booth. Exeter's pitchers, held the Crimson batsmen well under control, not allowing a single batter to reach third base...
Phillips Exeter Academy.--Macaulay s.s., Walber 2b., Bennett r.f., Wortham 1b., MacPhail l.f., Burns (Zarakov) c.f., Coleman (Ullman) 3b., McLaughlin c., Sawyer (Booth...