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...made himself famed by farming. He died last week. He was born on a farm - in Wisconsin, 1846. He fought in the Civil War, and then, stepping westward, he crossed the Missouri River on the ice. On the far side was Kansas. There he got a job at $12 a month, as a farmhand. Four years later he had a farm of his own. There he stayed for twelve years, making things grow. Then he undertook to edit a livestock journal, and the publicity which followed gradually began to make him - Foster Dwight Coburn- famed. From...
Edwin Denby, ex-Secretary of the Navy: "In a speech to University of Michigan alumni, said I: 'If I was informed that I could go back, could again take up the job of Secretary of the Navy and that if I repeated my actions in the oil matter I would be shot, why, I would say: "Bring on your firing squad!" Men of Michigan have no reason to be ashamed of me. ... Congress charged the head of the Navy to conserve, sell or exchange that oil. That was what...
Conductor Leopold Stokowski is happy. His band finally saved, his job secure, his men merrily signing their new contracts, he will go to Paris for the Summer. And in October his great jubilee season (the orchestra's 25th) will open as planned...
...will try to give their opinions particularly on the sort of questions that frequently arise at this time of the year in mind of the Senior who has got only so far as to deciding what general field he want s to enter, but has no leads to a job and does not care much where he starts in so long as he can believe that the hob he takes offers an opportunity for advancement towards the goal he has set for himself...
...job is done. Even when the main structure is erected and in use, there will be odds and ends to tend to, to straighten up and tidy away or put to possible use. Last year, for example, contests in several sports between winning class teams of the University and Harvard of Princeton were promised, which, for one reason or another, never materialized in some cases there were obvious difficulties, but this year it is hoped that these can be overcome. Outside competition adds an interest, an excitement, an incentive which is both desirable and valuable. That for the near future...