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...Sixteen undergraduates in the Engineering School are to receive scholarships for the current academic year, it was announced by the Committee on Scholarships yesterday. The awards which carry an average stipend of $350, have been made to undergraduate students who have obtained high scholarship either in their entrance examinations or in their undergraduate work. Ten of the scholarship holders come from Massachusetts, two each from New Jersey and Connecticut, and one each from New York and Pennsylvania...
...Sixteen years ago President Wilson thought he was as good as defeated by Charles Evans Hughes in an election which seemed to mean War or Peace. Democratic clamor against a change of White House leadership seemed to be falling on deaf ears. Pundit Lippmann's bit of history...
...daily services are concerned, so great a number has attended up until the present time that it is not yet possible to make use solely of Appleton Chapel for those who attend. The choir of sixteen men, invisible from the front part of the Church due to the organ screen, has remained alone in the Chapel end of the building...
...Hollis, one may discover, is not L'Opera, "Patience" is not Wagnerian, it is not the height of the season even in Boston; it is to display a most quibbling quiddity to remark that the twenty love-sick maidens of the Civic Light Opera Company are but sixteen, or that the choruses might conceivably be better. There are excellences which triumphantly conquer all cavil. Lingering uppermost in memory is ever Mr. Moulan, who is as sprightly an aesthetic sham as ever trod worn boards. Miss Hart, as Patience, she is blithe, and she is gay, and she is sufficient...
...Sixteen Augusts ago a California blunder cost Charles Evans Hughes the Presidency. On the eve of a hot Republican primary he carried his campaign into the State where Governor Hiram Johnson was seeking a Senate nomination. Though for hours they were under the same hotel roof at Long Beach, Nominee Hughes and the Governor did not meet. Johnsonites were infuriated at what they called Nominee Hughes's deliberate snub to their candidate. In November Governor Johnson was duly elected to the Senate?but California went Democratic with just enough electoral votes to keep Woodrow Wilson in the White House another...