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...Tall, sober, handsome and immaculately dressed Satirist Grosz was born in Berlin in 1893, has been a resident of Long Island since 1934, expects to become a U. S. citizen. Condemned to death as a pacifist during the War, he was let off with front-line service on the Western Front through pressure from Berlin liberals. At the age of 23 he was already a potent figure. He was spared to live through the bitter years of Germany's civil war and inflation, to draw with biting irregular line the gross Prussian junker, the rise of the Nazis...
...influences that work for war, and the part the individual can play in fighting them, such as by political pressure, peace propaganda, and continuous self-education in the field of international events, is the most successful handling of the subject that Harvard has seen in many years. And a sober and clear-headed approach to the problem of keeping peace is not only our best insurance for the future; it is also the finest tribute we can pay to the daring and ideals of the men who fought and died eighteen years...
...Wells College (women only) in Aurora, N. Y., alma mater of Mrs. Grover Cleveland, last week inducted as its eighth president one of its own trustees, sober, pudgy William Ernest Weld, 55, Presbyterian minister, authority on India. Since 1929 Dr. Weld had been economics professor and dean of the college of the University of Rochester...
...takes a lot to make a Harvard man weep, drunk or sober, and there were some of each crying when the final whistle blew. We hope that Harlow never leaves Harvard...
...father's business, did his first political writing anonymously at the age of 26. Caught up in the great religious revival of the 1740's, he became an ardent Puritan and remained one until his death, living simply, denouncing all vices impartially, demanding a return to the sober ways of the founding fathers. He served as city scavenger and tax collector (acquiring a shortage on his books of ?7,000), married, fathered two children, was widowed and married again at the age of 42. Not until the Sons of Liberty grew strong...