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...George Emerson Lowell Scholarships, with a stipend of $525, annually awarded to a member of the Freshman Class for "excellence in the Classics" will henceforth be awarded to the man who gets the highest grade on a special written examination in the Classics, to be given in June of each year and open to classical students in preparatory schools, it was learned yesterday at University Hall. This method of selecting the recipient of the Scholarship has been chosen in an effort to raise the standard of secondary school education in the classics, so that when the students come to Harvard...
...Baltimore & Ohio freight train. B. & O. officials, apprehensive lest the men wreck the train or kill themselves, ordered the train not to leave the yards. Then the marchers tried strategy. They deployed to Caseyville, eight miles away, waited until a string of 30 cars started to climb a steep grade there. Soaped rails and a cut air hose stalled the train, of which the marchers took informal possession. Ice melted from valuable perishable freight while railroad and county police argued with the determined mob. After 24 hours during which the railroad not only did not move 'its stranded cars...
...Forstmann is regarded as the fore most originator and maker of high-grade woolens in the U. S. He built the American Mills at Passaic, N. J., 30 years ago against the advice of experts who told him. that such woolens as his company made in Werden-on-Ruhr, Germany, could not be duplicated. He created Imperatrice and Beatrice (broadcloths) and most of the vogue-starting woolens including Marvella, Gerona, Charmeen and Chonga. He works alone in designing his fabrics and seeking colors from such sources as the plumage of birds in the Museum of Natural History. On his Kiel...
...many months was sold to E. Gerli & Co., Manhattan silk commission merchants, for $16,320,000, a sum which will come in handy for the war-worried Japanese Government. The price came to $150 a bale against an open market price of $178 for "crack double extra" (basic grade) silk on the National Raw Silk Exchange. E. Gerli & Co. have a year in which to distribute the silk. They expect to sell about half (the poorer grades) in Japan and the Orient, the better grades in the U. S. and Europe. Because it was understood that henceforth Japan will...
Letty Lynton (MGM). The heroine of this picture further enlightens cinemaddicts on the pains of promiscuity. Letty Lynton (Joan Crawford) not only has lovers. She has one who is patently the lowest grade of Latin American, and she kills him with a dose of poison. So rude and forceful are his amorous tactics that she has the full sympathy of all decent members of the audience. She is driven to distracted crime by her high-minded affection for a young Bostonian (Robert Montgomery). Her low Latin despises this affection, threatens to cut it short. Letty Lynton's misdemeanors...