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...fellowships of *500 each from the Charles and Julia Henry Fund for study in Oxford or Cambridge are open to all College students this year. The committee managing this fund consists of President Conant, A. Chester Hanford, Dean of Harvard, and Jerome D. Greene '96, Secretary to the Corporation, representing Harvard, and President Angell, Carl A. Lohmann, and George P. Day, representing Yale...
...plane. Few feet above the landing field the motor stalled. The plane struck a ditch, nosed over, bumped owner and pilot into unconsciousness. With a black eye and six strips of plaster on his face, Sportsman Whitney went out next day to announce the races. In Washington Princess Julia Dent Grant Cantacuzene, granddaughter of President Ulysses Simpson Grant, regained the U. S. citizenship to which she was born in the White House in 1876. which she lost in 1899 by marrying Russian Prince Michael Cantacuzene. Regretting that she had been unable to get accommodations in anything more humble than tourist...
...contemporary books to be presented to President Roosevelt Tuesday by the nation's booksellers to supplement the permanent White House library. The committee of judges which made the selections included Bliss Perry, Francis Lee Higginson Professor of English Literature, Emeritus; Dorothy Canfield Fisher, Alexander Woolcott, Christopher Morely, Julia Peterkin, and William Lyon Phelps. Perry is reported to be one of the Pulitzer Prize committee, although the judges' names have never been officially revealed by Columbia University...
...chicken & dumpling dinner. They had gathered to do honor to their chief. Grace ("G. A.") Abbott, who had resigned and was leaving Washington for good. Thirteen years ago, after an apprenticeship in Chicago's Hull House, Grace Abbott was picked by President Harding to succeed the late great Julia Lathrop as the second chief of the Children's Bureau. She hung a big, red-splotched map of U. S. infant mortality in her office, and stayed there until last June. How much she had accomplished in that time her 80 excited employes were ready last week to show...
Merrily We Roll Along (by George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart; Sam Harris, producer). "What are you having?" a young man at Richard Niles's party asks Julia Glenn (Mary Philips) in the first scene of this play. Too bored to hand him her glass, she says: "I'm having not much fun." The acts that follow explain why not only Julia Glenn but Richard Niles (Kenneth MacKenna),the successful playwright who is her host; Althea Royce (Jessie Royce Landis), the aging actress who is his wife, and most of the other members of the large cast fail...