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...Last year he contributed a brand new dollar bill at the request of the Red Cross committee, which specified that he contribute no larger amount...
...disposed of $60,000,000 of that amount. Gradually it is building up a body of precedent which should simplify future work. But the members of the Board complained that they are hampered by lack of funds. The Budget Bureau has cut $54,000 from their request for a deficiency appropriation for this year, and $190,000 from their request for next year's appropriation...
...whose request was the portrait of King George by Charles Sims, R. A., removed from the Royal Academy?" asked many who saw this masterpiece of satiric elegance exhibited in Manhattan (TIME, Oct. 26). Said Artist Sims who arrived in the U. S. last week: "My picture of the King, having been in the Academy for some 14 months, during which period there was not, so far as I know, any objection to it on the part of any one, was withdrawn by me at the wish of his Majesty expressed to Sir Frank Dicksee, President of the Academy, who communicated...
...last night offers strong contrast to the attitude of indifference towards the University team half a century ago. An indignant editorial on "Harvard Indifference Towards Athletics", appearing in a November issue of the CRIMSON in 1880, shows the extent of neglect to which the sport had fallen. The pitiful request that members of the University come out and encourage by their presence the eleven at practice, would seem particularly out of place in these days of secret sessions and active manager candidates guarding the Stadium. The editorial follows...
...Schley "trial" was not a court martial, but only a Court of Inquiry, and it was called at Schley's request, but in other respects it resembled the Mitchell trial: it drew a number of prominent officers as participants (Schley, Sampson and Admiral Dewey, President of the Court) and the personality of Schley was not dissimilar to that of Colonel Mitchell. Schley was in command of the Flying Squadron from March to June 1898. Then Sampson was placed over him. But at the battle of Santiago when Cervera's fleet was sunk, Sampson was absent and Schley...