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...ground floor an undenominational church and a dining room seating 2,000, above 4,500 hotel rooms which will rent for not more than $21 weekly, and on its top (65th) story a hospital. Within it drinking and smoking, and possibly Sunday journals, will be forbidden. Ten percent of its earnings will go to support a medical mission at Lake Victoria Nyanza, in Africa. The builder is a realtor named Oscar E. Konkle. The site is close to those of the Union Theological Seminary, Columbia University, International House and the site of the proposed Park Avenue Baptist Church...
...sales for the six months at the Harvard store were $483,920, an increase of 16 percent over the same period of the year before...
...December 31, 1925, the Coop had 7550 members at the Harvard store, an increase of 824 members. The increase in past years has always been about five percent, but jumped to 16 percent this year. This is attributed to the erection of the new building...
...results of a recent plebiscite taken after the Damascus bombardment during which the French army drove out the Syrian government," continued Professor Earle, "showed that 85 percent of the people wished an independent government. Their second choice was for a United States mandate and the third choice was for the British. Almost to a man the population opposed the French mandate. The League, of course, having once established the mandate has no power to change it. The only remedy is the voluntary withdrawal of the nation or its forceful expulsion by the country occupied...
...Haven, November 7, 1925--In the balloting, at Yale, under the auspices of the Yale Daily News; on the subject of compulsory chapel, the opponents of the traditional service as a compulsory act won a clean-cut victory. The returns, which included almost 85 percent of the student body, showed that 1472 had voted against the continuance of compulsory chapel, while only 204 voted...