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Another interesting feature of the Garrick collection, is the ticket to Garrick's funeral. The wording of the invitation follows; "The Executors of David Garrick Esq. request the honor of your Company on Monday next, the 1st. of February, at 11 o'clock in the forenoon at his late House in the Adelphi to attend his Funeral to Westminister Abby...
...replying to the request of the Citizens Committee of 1,000 for Law Enforcement, to state his opinion of the attack by Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University on prohibition, Dr. Charles William Eliot '53, President Emeritus of the University, took a view decidedly opposite to that held by Dr. Butler...
...request your Excellency to proceed to Pittsburgh in order to pay the homage of the Italian Government to the great actress just departed and to take steps to insure the transportation of the body to Italy at the expense of the Italian Government...
...President Cosgrave: "The conference to which we were invited in London has not been productive of any results. All matters proposed were dismissed. No agreement was reached and there is no alternative to the Boundary Commission. It will, therefore, be the duty of the Executive Council to renew their request to have the machinery of the Boundary Commission set up so that its work may proceed...
...Vanderlip, former President of the National City Bank, Manhattan, made his startling speech anent official corruption in Washington, he has been resigning his many directorships one by one. His first retirement from the board of a prominent corporation followed a letter sent to him by J. Horace Harding, requesting his resignation from the Continental Can Co. Mr. Vanderlip went to the board meeting of the Company declaring that he would not resign, yet he did so when he discovered that his fellow-directors unanimously seconded Mr. Harding's request...