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...Academy, then Trinity College and more recently Duke University. Harvard began as Newton's College, changed to Cambridge College, again to Harvard College and finally to Harvard University. Princeton had its inspiration in Log College and its founders established it as the College of New Jersey, removed to Newark and later to Princeton. It only became Princeton University in 1896. Mention was made of "jealousies and squabbles" in the faculty of Duke but no mention was made of the more than one hundred years of squabbles in Harvard: and even President Wilson's administration of Princeton...
...general appearance of pepticity made hard to believe. The McKee record is an extraordinary one, interpretable so ambiguously that even before he made his keynote address at Cooper Union last week it was both a boon and a handicap to him. Joseph McKee was born in Newark, raised in The Bronx. He worked his way through Fordham, taught there and at De Witt Clinton High School. He went to the State Assembly in 1918, became the youngest city Judge in 1924, youngest Aldermanic President in 1926. In that office he raised no violent anti-Tammany protests, but Samuel Seabury...
...Newark, N. J., excited Chauncey Harris, Negro, told police: "A big shiny car stops near me. A woman and a man in swell clothes get out. The man digs a hole. The woman takes a baby out of a suitcase, kisses it, puts it in the hole. The man throws dirt on it." Twelve police-men and detectives, three taxicabs full of reporters sped to the vacant lot indicated by Chauncey Harris, dug, disinterred a black kitten...
...Jesse Isidor, who insists on having his middle name spelled out and who contributed heavily to the Democratic campaign, resigned as president to serve another Roosevelt, as Ambassador to France. Herbert, who died last spring, was Macy's treasurer and president of Macy-owned L. Bamberger & Co. in Newark. The middle brother, Percy Selden. a precise, courteous, slightly nervous gentleman with thinning hair, is now in full command. Generally credited with being the brains of Macy's merchandising, he is always known to Macy's 8,000 employes as Mister Percy...
...first regular transport plane in the world with sleeping berths flew into Newark Airport one day last week. It was an 18-passenger ship of Eastern Air Transport assigned to the night run between New York and Atlanta. Its two berths were occupied by Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, War ace, official of the transport company; and Alexander Strong, Boston engineer...