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...Some of the writers who earned no college degree wish they had. Mr. Howells, most sweet-natured and modest of men, wrote me, not long before his death: 'I would fain have been schooled, for I think it would have saved me time, and I have always thought the average of my ignorance would have been less.' Mr. Howells, working in a printing office, mastered Latin, Greek, French, and Spanish before he was twenty-one. He would hardly have been allowed to take as many languages as that in college...
...Fain '27 won the Pasteur medal in the Pasteur debate, which took place in Paine Hall last night...
Dillon Again. To every business persisting in the hands of its founder's descendants comes at one time or another the temptation to sell out. Such descendants all too often are inept in business affairs, fain would clip coupons and shy at "trade." To one such group, the scions of Samuel S. White, founder in 1844 of the S. S. White Dental Manufacturing Co. (now the world's largest concern of its field), and to the company's shareholding employes, came Clarence Dillon of Dillon, Read & Co. Mr. Dillon offered to buy them out, just as he offered...
...Yale team was composed of H. G. Rowell, H. H. Thompson, and Basil Davenport, while E. C. Sibley '28, D. S. Dickson '27, and I. J. Fain '27 represented Harvard. Professor I. S. Winter, Professor Emeritus of Public Speaking at Harvard, was the chairman of the debate, and Professor C. Edmund Neil, of Boston University, Mr. James E. King, of the Boston Transcript editorial staff, and the Reverend William R. Leslie, of St. Mark's Episcopal Church, Brookline, were the judges...
...University negative team which will enter the lists tonight is composed of E. C. Sibley '28, D. S. Dickson '27, and I. J. Fain '27, with George Slaff '26, and A. F. Reel '28 as alternates. Of these Dickson is the only one who spoke in the triangular debates last year. The Yale team is composed of H. G. Rowell, H. H. Thomas, Basil Davenport, and H. G. Hayes, alternate...