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...Some 40 years ago "Bob" Speer went to Princeton-a poor boy, tall, husky, with massive head and shoulders. He starred in the line of the football eleven, edited the college paper, won the oratorical contests. There is a tradition that his scholastic standing was second only to that of Aaron Burr in the history of the college. He prepared for the ministry, but would not become ordained because he felt that priesthood would limit his influence.* Almost at once he stepped into a world business - Foreign Missions. Most of his life has been spent...
Queen Elizabeth of Belgium: "People in Brussels are saying that I and my boy Leopold, Crown Prince, will lose a brilliant golf partner when U. S. Ambassador Henry Prather Fletcher is transferred down to Italy...
...recent telegram from Mr. Silvers advised those who are interested in making the Pudding a success to attend the midnight performance of "Oh, Boy" at the Tremont Theatre on Tuesday, March fourth. Mr. Silvers considers this musical comedy one of the best that has even been written and a useful standard for the purposes of the Hasty Pudding Club...
...such details is not realized until late in political life. Thus the irrevocable fact of birth in New Hampshire has wrecked more than one Presidential aspiration. After a survey of these conditions, Mr. Chappell, writing in Vanity Fair, has deduced the theory that "if a parent really wants his boy to be President, he can make his selection a practical certainty if only he start early and go about it the right...
...Michael Idvorsky Pupin, Serb immigrant boy, now professor of electromechanics, Columbia University; inventor of electrical "tuning," the resonator, inductance coil, etc.; author of From Immigrant to Inventor...