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...tonight's meeting Mr. W. A. Barron '14, chairman of the Track Advisory Committee will preside. The other men who will take part in the discussion are Mr. F. W. Moore '93; Coaches Martin and Farrell; Manager Chandler; and the members of the Advisory Committee, Mr. H. S. Grew '96, Mr. F. W. Garcelon, Law '95, Mr. R. C. Floyd '11, Mr. R. C. Foster '11, Mr. W. J. Bingham '16, and Mr. A. T. Lyman...
...Turks certainly encountered a blow from the United States, whom they had hoped to appease by the Chester concession, when Joseph C. Grew, United States Minister to Switzerland and " official observer " at the conference, made it clear that his country would support the Allies in their capitulations claim. He also said that his position was that of an observer, but that he had " full authority" from his Government to speak for the United States...
...waiter or laborer when broke. He was an easy spender and a rolling stone and his Wander-jahre brought him the knowledge of three things?that he had a certain gift as a smoking-car or pool-parlor raconteur, that he was attractive to women, and that, as he grew older, he wanted some more permanent success than his roving habits offered...
...younger literati themselves. The authors of The Forty-Niners (recent dramatic fiasco) eat lunch four times a week with the young critics, but they did not save Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker, Marc Connolly, and Ring Lardner from a sound critical lashing. Heywood Broun's novel The Boy Grew Older was enthusiastically welcomed by the older and more conventional reviewers, but Broun's friends ridiculed and disparaged it as viciously as if it had been written by Zane Grey...
...though its originators claim only that it has alleviated some cases and enabled patients to assimilate a more normal diet. Announcement has just been made of the "cure" of an apparently hopeless case of diabetes. A New York mathematics teacher and former athlete, Joseph Corbett, became ill in 1917, grew progressively worse, was pronounced incurable by physicians, and last October, after a breakdown, lingered on a starvation diet, too weak to turn in bed. His wife had bought a cemetery plot for him. He began a regular dosage of insulin on February 2. The 9% sugar in his blood...