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...Yale too--is under the handicap of not having the sturdy raw material from the farms. But that obstacle can be surmounted--hence the running outdoors at present. Hardship and sacrifice bring out a man's ingenuity, and power. In aiming for a victory over Yale we have a job cut out for us that will take everything we can put into...
Edison Medal for 1923 was awarded to John William Lieb, operating Vice President of the New York Edison Co., who has made New York the model light and power city of the world. Over 30 years ago, when Lieb was just out of Stevens Tech, he got a job with Thomas A. Edison. The firm had a contract to build a great electrical plant in Italy. "Send Lieb," said Edison. He was only 22, but he did the job and stayed in charge of the Italian company for 12 years. Lieb's story, together with those of the 13 previous...
...first statement to the press since he took over Lenin's job, President Rykov said that while international affairs remained complicated by the Versailles Treaty, Russia would keep a Red Army for defensive purposes. He expressed sympathy with "awakening Asia" and hoped to strengthen Russia's relations with Afghanistan, Persia, Turkey, China and other countries of the East...
...leaving college, Mr. Mason became a wholesale greengrocer. But not for long. In a year he got a job on the Chicago Herald, then the property of H. H. Kohlsaat. He shifted to the Chicago Tribune and then, in 1905, to the Chicago Evening Post. From 1905 to 1922 he shinnied up the Post to the altitude of Managing Editor. In March, 1922, The New York Tribune enticed him to Manhattan. There he conducts himself as a humane and kindly editor but one-in his own phrase-"not afraid of using small town stunts on a metropolitan newspaper, provided they...
...proved so beneficial. His unusual intimacy with the details of college life, coupled with broad vision, has made his services on the Committee on Athletics especially valuable, as well as constituting him a most helpful adviser for the students themselves. For these reasons, his statement that he feels his job is one for a young man is much too modest. It may be possible to find a young man to teach Freshman Hygiene, but there is an extraordinary dearth of young men with executive ability, human understanding and far-sightedness, combined with the requisite technical knowledge...