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...contrast, Henry Cabot Lodge came and went like a silent wraith. He seemed frail, apparently steadied himself by the desks, so that a sudden draught might not upset him. He paused to chat with this one, with that one, with La Follette, with Pat Harrison, and then retired to recline in the background with legs stretched out and jacket tightly buttoned...
Visitors to the Engineering section of the Exhibition at Wembley received a sudden shock when their umbrellas and purses and other articles containing steel were torn from their persons by an invisible force. The thief was a giant magnet weighing 6,720 pounds...
...seem to-do out there) almost anything is possible in Chicago. The professor is much more concerned over that vast and impassive army which fills the colleges everywhere, but which appears so stolidly to resist any impression on the intellect at all; and in his remarks one catches a sudden sense of the dismay with which the teaching profession must have heard the suggestion that our young men are over weighted with brains. There are so very many of them who do not speak fifteen languages...
Hoover's rise in the past few weeks has been as sudden as either Jameson's or Johnson's. He was dropped with the third University crew just prior to the departure of the first squad for Philadelphia for practice on the Schuylkill river during the spring recess. Thereafter he rowed on the Senior Class Crew. When the decision was made to incorporate, the Sophomore A crew into a second University crew to row in the American Henley Regatta at Philadelphia, Hoover with Johnson was advanced to the second crew. He retained his position when the crews went...
Died. Federico Boyd, onetime President of the Republic of Panama; after a sudden collapse, in Manhattan. He was a correspondent for The New York Times at the time the Republic was founded. His father, an American of Scotch ancestry, went to 'Central America during the gold rush. A son and daughter survive. The son's wife is Mrs. Elizabeth Boiling Boyd, niece of Mrs. Woodrow Wilson...