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...Boston, starting at scratch with Paul Revere one spring night in 1775, William Dawes did his share in awakening the countryside to the news that the British were coming-although Revere got most of the credit. Out of Lincoln, Neb., starting at scratch with Charles W. Bryan, one of William Dawes' descendants set out on a long ride into U. S. politics. It is not yet determined which of them will get the more credit, although it appears that Dawes-Charles Gates Dawes it is this time-appears to have made greater headway in arousing the countryside...
Three years ago, one Fred Brown kept two Nebraska girls chained in a hut for two days. A rescuer appeared, whom Brown also chained up. Finally the rescuer escaped, notified the police, and Brown became a "lifer" at Lincoln, Neb., penitentiary...
...Trenton, Neb., met ten Pawnees from Oklahoma, seven Sioux from South Dakota. They held a "big smoke," patched up the first "peace" between their two tribes in 52 years. Between them had been "war" since 1873 when the Sioux massacred 156 Pawnees, near the spot of the present reconciliation...
...strange career that began at Salem, Ill., March 19, 1866. A lawyer in Jacksonville, Ill., then at Lincoln, Neb. Elected to Congress in 1890 and again in 1892, he held in the four years 1891 to 1895 the only elective office which he ever gained and that was before his career had really begun...
...Newcomb Brush, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vt., Philosophy; George Lyle Church, Massachusetts Agricultural College, Dorchester, Botany; Clayton Dion Craig, University of South Dakota, Watertown, Economics; David Mitchel Dougherty, University of Delaware, Wilmington, Del., English; Edward French Dow, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., Government; Henry Matran Eller, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Neb., Classics; Raymond Matthew Fuoss '25, Altoona, Pa., Chemistry; Stowell Coolidge Goding, Dartmouth College, Hanover, N. H., Romance Languages; Granvyl G. Hulse, University of California, Southern Branch, Los Angeles, Cal., History; Edgar Morris Hymans, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, O., Economics; Donald Wallace MacKinnon, Bowdoin College, Brunswick, Me., Psychology...