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...make Chicago a great cultural centre as well as the country's biggest railroad junction, assembled last week in a new million-dollar building on the citified "campus" of the University of Chicago. Henry and Stanley Field, Rufus Cutler Dawes, Thomas Elliott Donnelley, Harold Higgins Swift, et ul., mingled with a learned collection of archaeologists and other scientists. Neatly bespatted, with waxed mustache almost as shiny as his horn-rimmed spectacles, the Egyptian Minister to the U. S., Sesostris Sidarouss Pasha was there, beaming at one & all, and especially at the rosy little man with fluffy white hair...
...Conservatives grumbled that Mr. Runciman had not pledged his Board to up tariffs the full, authorized 100% but to employ "discretion" in every case, the bill passed first, second and final readings in both Houses of Parliament last week by majorities of from 250 to 400, its swift passage being so certain that many M. P.s did not trouble to vote. In vain Old George Lansbury, leader of the puny Labor Opposition, cackled: "There is no ground or occasion for this departure from the established custom of the House of Commons to take plenty of time to consider all financial...
...books belonging to members of the house are on view in an exhibition now being held in the Kirkland House Library. Among the volumes are Ethridge's "Love in a Tub", published in 1735; Hume's "History of England", published in 1762; and Hawkesworth's "Works of Jonathan Swift., Revised With Notes...
Smallest, Cheapest. It took Bert Hinkler 15½-days, cost him $250 to fly an 875-lb. Avro Avian from London to Australia three years ago. One Charles Butler completed the flight last week for $170 in a Comper Swift, supposedly the tiniest airplane in the world (weight about 500 lb.). Wearing carpet slippers for comfort, carrying a tomahawk for protection in case of a forced landing, Pilot Butler flew the 11,500 mi. in 9 days, 1 hr., 32 min., beating by about an hour the record of Charles William Anderson Scott...
...chairs, with heat at the turn of a radiator valve and plenty of food in the dining-room below. But the amenities of the House Plan make all the more evident the discrepancy between the sheltered college and the world outside. Many men, particularly those holding scholarships, will find swift disillusionment when they discover that their carning capacity in the first year after graduation is insufficient to maintain the inflated standard of living to which they have become accustomed...