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Married. Virginia Langdon Loomis, daughter of Edward Eugene Loomis, president of Lehigh Valley Railroad; and Bayard Schieffelin, Manhattan socialite; in Summit...
During five minutes last week when the wind on Mount Washington in New Hampshire screamed by at an average of 188 m. p. h., Summit Observatory's instruments recorded a top velocity of 231 m. p. h., greatest wind speed in weather-recording history. Previous record: 164 m. p. h., recorded at Mount Washington, N. H, on April...
...social system, taking the term in its widest sense, is frankly extra-curricular in its emphasis. The important thing to do is to heel some organization, to make yourself known, to make a fraternity and possibly, if that summit of campus ambition can be attained, a Senior Society. One is careful, particularly during his first two years, to speak only to the right people, and to avoid those of less prominent rank. Andover men, outnumbering those from any other school, place particular importance on this sort of thing and usually excel...
Last summer a trained nurse named Kathleen E. Hunt quit her job with the Arthur Sunshine Home & Kindergarten for Blind Babies. This is a private institution at Summit, N. J., taking in young blind boarders from New Jersey, New York, Delaware. Pennsylvania, Maryland, Tennessee and Rhode Island. When Miss Hunt left, the institution contained about 40 children, none over twelve. No If ger could she endive, she complained to the New Jersey Commission for the Blind, the cruel ways in which- Superintendent Gladys M. Kraeuter let her blind wards be punished. Miss Hunt also carried her story...
...devote the rest of his life to a great memorial to the men who died in war and to the women who bore them. In the ensuing months the project clarified in his mind as a gigantic arch, over 100 ft. high, with a mosaic rainbow at its summit. Though few people were interested in helping him build it, Sculptor Barnard was not discouraged. His art had given him an international reputation and a comfortable fortune. He retired into his Manhattan studio to complete his arch with his own hands and his own funds...