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...local constabulary had dispersed a mob of undergraduates who had attempted to enter the university heating plant. Object of entering the heating plant was apparently to blow the whistle, make further disturbance. Cause of this unusual activity: a general student strike, precipitated when Dean of Women Una B. Herrick ruled that all co-eds must be in their dormitories...
Members of the 67th Congress (1921-23) were not surprised last week to hear that their most eccentric colleague, Manuel Herrick, 54, Republican, of the Eighth Oklahoma District, had been arrested by Federal Dry agents while firing for $15 per week the boiler of a 500-gal. still in the remote reaches of St. Mary's County, Md. They well remembered Congressman Herrick's notorious exploits during his two years at the Capitol-the beauty contest he ran from his office in the House Office Building which resulted in a breach of promise suit against...
...Herrick, a cattleman and farmer in Oklahoma's "Cherokee strip," was elected to Congress in 1920 by the sudden death of his chief opponent and that year's Republican landslide. In 1922 he campaigned vainly for re-election with a speech entitled: "Two Years in Congress, or Through Hell and Back...
Amiable and ardent is the France-America Society (William D. Guthrie of Manhattan, president). Its ceremonies usually involve roseate references to Benjamin Franklin, General Lafayette, Pershing, Herrick, Lindbergh. When the society was founded in 1911 it took over and renovated a famed old Paris mansion, proceeding on the assumption that the government would help pay the costs. Last week the French Senate was surprised and pained at being reminded of this assumption by a bill to pay a 200,000-franc architect...
Photographers from Notman's Studio in Cambridge were present at the camp today to take pictures of the eights. The "Gypsy", owned by Robert F. Herrick of Boston, one of Harvard's most constant crew followers, arrived at the pier today after being fog bound at Wareham for the past few days. Last year the oarsmen went out on the power yacht several afternoon during race week, and it is expected tht brief excursions will be held next week...