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...Rochester, N. Y., many a suicide has jumped from the high bridge over the Genesee River into the rock-strewn waters far below. Coroners call it "Suicide Bridge." Next month Rochester will dedicate a new bridge, hoping to keep its name clean. Under his office door one day lately Coroner Richard Anthony...
...granting of an S. B. degree to one whose knowledge of science goes no further than a conversational acquaintance with biology or a year's rock tapping amid the glaciers of Nahant remains as an illogical feature of the Harvard curriculum. Originally an academic course was practically synonymous with a classical training and consequently a knowledge of Latin or Greek was a valid requirement for an A. B. degree. This is no longer true, however, and the distinction between the two degrees, based solely on whether the candidate does, or does not, offer an ancient language, has outworn its usefulness...
...seven years that followed 1915 the Wabash was far from the only major railroad in trouble. This period included government operation under William Gibbs McAdoo. In these years the following carriers went into receivership: Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific; Western Pacific; International & Great Northern; Missouri, Kansas & Texas; Missouri Pacific ; St. Louis, Iron Mountain & Southern; Baltimore & Maine; Texas & Pacific; Denver & Rio Grande...
...Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, another major carrier, changed its policy last week, omitted dividends due on both classes of preferred stock. It was the first interruption of these dividends since the stocks were issued in 1917. Said Banker Charles Hayden, chairman: "It is the belief of the board that the best dividend that could be paid to preferred stockholders at this time is to keep the company in strong financial position...
...Capt. Campbell had very specific clues, thought a week would do it. Cocos. 400 mi. off the Colombian coast of South America, is a small island (six nautical miles each way) but mountainous, covered with dense undergrowth. The clue, naturally not divulged, was supposed to lead to a large rock which formed the door of the treasure cave...