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...boat is going to go!" said Mr. Frank Knapp of the firm of Leavitt and Pierce last night when questioned in regard to the projected cruise by special boat from Boston to New York on the eve of the Harvard-Princeton football game on November 10. The Harvard boat is no longer a vague project; it has already been definitely arranged...
That the Harvard invasion of Princeton on November 10 will be accomplished by sea as well as by land, a route never before attempted by the College as a body, was hinted at last night by members of the firm of Leavitt and Pierce, which plans to charter a special Fall River boat to New York on the eve of the Princeton football game, and all it needs is the support of 300 Harvard men to make the plans final...
...young Australian Premier, twice wounded in the War, is the political hero of the Antipodes. Although a Cambridge graduate, he owned a dry goods firm and belonged to the Labor Party. The War came. He founded the Nationalist Party, fought with the Royal Fusiliers, went to Geneva, startled the League of Nations by a brilliant plea for disarmament, returned to Australia, succeeded (when ex-Premier Hughes had failed) in effecting a coalition against the Labor Party, became Premier, remained young...
...President expressed gratification that the Constitution had been passed and promulgated, as it gave a firm basis to the Government; he touched upon the need of a reduction in military expenditure, upon thorough financial retrenchment, upon the need of developing and maintaining education. Referring to the lack of cooperation in China and to foreign nations he said...
...identified with the financial arrangements of the Northcliffe Press. At the time Lord Northcliffe, then Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, started his first newspaper venture (Answers), Lord Rothermere, then Harold Harmsworth, was in the Civil Service. He was accounted a brilliant mathematician and his advent to his brother's firm may safely be said to have laid the cornerstone of the Northcliffe fortune. Northcliff e had the journalistic gift and lacked, not business enterprise, but business ability; Rothermere lacked the former but was a positive genius in the business affairs of the firm. Lord Beaverbrook's journalistic career...