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...Chamber of Commerce, grey-haired Silas Hardy Strawn of Chicago, who has been at various times president of the U. S. Bar and Golf Associations. Lawyer Strawn was U. S. delegate to the Chinese tariff conference in Peiping, which accomplished nothing. Again last week in this latest French move against high U. S. tariffs, Lawyer Strawn could think of nothing better than oratory. Said...
Publisher Peck, while continuing to move among Brooklyn aristocrats in town and out at Locust Valley, decided to gear his paper to the white-collar middle class, and he proceeded to pour money into it. He made the Times a typical "home"' paper, unsensational, non-crusading, bursting with local news and civic pride. He initiated a costly carrier delivery service, then an innovation in Greater New York (since copied by other Brooklyn papers). In less than ten years the Times reached 100,000 circulation. The Eagle still has more than twice as much advertising, but last year it lost...
...History and Literature Department has been progressive in almost all of its changes. And although the present move may exclude some men genuinely interested in the field, it is preferable that the advantages of the department should be given to a few than that, by admitting a larger number, these singular advantages should be lost...
...Harvard entries for the New England Intercollegiate wrestling tournament today have been with drawn, it was announced last night by H. A. A. officials. This move was made after the discovery of a by-law forbidding less than four University wrestlers entering the meet. The Freshman team will also be prevented from participating...
Adams has not fared so ill. Its original members were those who would not bestir themselves to move from their former quarters in Westmorly Court and Randolph Hall, and those who indicated the House as their second or third choice. The regulations of most Masters stand in the way of men who would shift their House allegiance; only a few Adams residents have made such requests; the majority are well content. And it has been well advertised: its doings have been chronicled in the press, its head has spoken in the Union--as have others, of course. After...