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...always fighting together against outsiders, always scrapping each other. In after years, the younger brother wrote TIME the first letter which it ever published, saying that he always used to lick his big brother (TIME, Sept. 29, 1924). These fisticuffing lads were the McAdoo brothers: William Gibbs, elder; Malcolm Ross, younger...
...enter Jerusalem together. It was Colonel Lawrence who represented the Pan-Arabs at the Peace Conference. It was he, moody, mystical, perverse, who was driven by his eccentric soul to retire from the Near East, seek solitude at Oxford, and finally assume, incognito, the rank and style of "Private Ross of his Majesty's Tank Corps...
...gamut of organizations is matched by an equal variety of women leaders-leaders of political causes, such as Maud Wood Park, Belle Sherwin, Mrs. Belmont, Alice Paul; leaders in practical politics, ranging from Ruth McCormick and Harriet Taylor Upton to Congresswomen Kahn, Rogers, Norton, Governesses Ross and Ferguson, who are really not leaders of women's movements at all; leaders of "social" movements such as Edith Rockefeller McCormick; leaders who have distinguished themselves in their own professions, such as Judge Florence Allen, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt, Jane Addams; women who have approached public life from poverty, from the bourgeoisie...
...President Aydelotte denounces the classroom, Professor Meiklejohn shouts, "Away with all lectures." President Frank says that the college is sick and proposes an isolation ward where it can be taken apart and examined and experimented on; Secretary Flexner wants to abolish the college altogether at university centres. Profesor Johnston Ross denounces compulsory chapel. Professor William B. Otis denounces compulsory drills. Professor J. E. Kirpatrick would abolish the college Presidency. But it students propose any reforms in these fields, we call it a student movement...
...This is the second time that Colonel Bradley has placed his horses first and second in the Derby. No other owner has ever done this twice. The only other man who ran a first and second was Commander J . K . L . Ross, who did it in 1919 with Sir Barton and Billy Kelly...