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...main dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria Western Union Telegraph Co. installed complete cable and telegraph stations and three translux machines to flash messages of congratulation as they poured in from rulers, statesmen, educators and dignitaries in the four corners of the world. Ready for the diners' inspection were nine of the ten extant oil-paintings (among them an Orpen, a La very, a Salisbury*) of the man they were honoring. Elaborate souvenir programs and menus were printed. Two dollar Wedgwood plates depicting Columbia scenes were to be distributed to each & every guest. New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning would...
...When Columbia's President Seth Low was elected Mayor of New York, everyone knew who would succeed him. Of an early faculty meeting at which young Professor Butler spoke, the late Dean John William Burgess later remarked: "I saw in a flash . . . that he would become president of Columbia and that Columbia would become the greatest institution on earth." Today Columbia University has 31,978 students in residence, is the world's largest institution of learning for men & women. Monuments to Dr. Butler are Teachers' College and its many affiliates, and Columbia's great summer school. Dr. Butler secured...
...record this season has not been of a consistently promising calibre, the Big Green packs a dangerous threat in W. H. Morton, center ice, who piloted last Fall's melodramatic football eleven and vied with Wood for All American honors. Wood will again play opposite the New Rochelle flash when he assumes his regular berth as keystone man in the Crimson attacking line, flanked by Captain Cunningham and Baldwin...
...Hannagan again encountered Carl Fisher who was then developing Miami Beach. Mourning the fact that the Press made no distinction between Miami and Miami Beach, three miles from the mainland, Promoter Fisher again hired Hannagan. Few days later Hannagan wired his first dispatch to United Press: MIAMI BEACH FLA - FLASH - JULIUS FLEISCHMANN DROPPED DEAD ON POLO FIELD HERE STOP DONT FORGET MIAMI BEACH DATELINE...
...stark accounts of conditions. Native attacks on white women became so prevalent, protection by the native police appeared so ineffective and bungling, that admirals in charge at Pearl Harbor publicly announced that Oahu was unsafe for the wives of naval officers. Then came the Kahahawai murder?apparently a blinding flash of white revenge...