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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...delegates to the Des Moines Conference who have not already done so must report at Phillips Brooks House either today or tomorrow between 8 A. M. and 6 P. M. to receive their credentials. These credentials must be presented to the ticket agent in order that the special rate tickets may be obtained...
...recent address a professor of the University gave an explanation of Harvard's inaction which is worthy of thoughtful consideration. He said that the reason there had been no abrupt upset here after the war is that Harvard has always progressed at a smooth rather than a jerky rate. Ever on the lookout and with committees always investigating and suggesting improvements, the University has grown slowly but continuously. In this way Harvard, under President Eliot, faced the period of readjustment after the Civil War. The growth of the graduate schools, the liberalizing of the requirements for the degree...
...special rate of one and one-third fare for the round trip has been granted by the Railroad Administration for use by those starting between December 27 and 31. This rate has no stopover privileges and is good only to and from Des Moines directly. The majority of delegates from Cambridge will leave on a special train from Boston December 29, which arrives in Des Moines on the morning of December...
...Colonel Roosevelt "average"? Not a bit. He is a real chip of the old block, combative, honest, direct--not to say blunt--like his father before him. His war record was first rate; his book is a good deal better than might be expected from an author of little literary experience. There is lots of the Roosevelt personality in the book, and lots of the First Division spirit. For some, and let us hope many readers, that should be sufficient recommendation...
Joseph Brennan, as John Ferguson, it a notable actor. He has the rate gift of acting by being natural, and is there by doubly convincing. No less excellent was the performance of Miss Freedmar as Hannah. These two were easily the outstanding figures, but no one in the cast was inferior. Dudley Digges slightly overdid the part of Jimmy Caesar, but not enough to spoil it, and Brandor Peters was sturdy if not brilliant as Andrew...