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...lawyer, longtime foe of Prohibition, an early director in the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment. Col. Codman. 60, is a Harvardman. He served with the A. E. F. in the Quarter masters Department. In 1924-26 he was attached to the Judge Advocate General's Department. He has twice represented the combined anti-Prohibition societies at Congressional hearings. In him the Crusaders hope to find the counterpart of Director Henry Hastings Curran of the Association Against the Prohibition Amendment...
...Rugby stars last year played in international matches when the interuniversity series were over. Rowing is so strenuous that college oarsmen take up practically no other sport. ". . . In idealistic England the spectator capacity at Twickenham, where many college rugby games are played, is more than 100,000, almost twice as large as the Harvard Stadium, and on more than a few occasions this structure has been filled for college games...
...face-off. Everett took possession of the puck and after fighting his way through the University Club defense threw away his chance with a wide shot. A similar opportunity was lost shortly after. Toward the end of the period the University Club threatened when the forward line was twice grouped in front of the Harvard cage but Ellis was able to keep the puck from crossing the line. The work of the goalies of both teams was the feature of the period...
...without its financial compensation.** Last fortnight he and his friends tried to arrange a debate on the subject with one of Bishop Manning's priests, who declined. But the Church-men's Association, dominated by anti-Manning clergy, invited Mr. Lindsey to speak to them. Bishop Manning twice telephoned to prevent the meeting. He had no right to interfere. The Association is outside his church organization. But he said he was speaking for the Association's president, who was away at the time. Members voted to hear Judge Lindsey, who then loudly told the Bishop he would...
...bearing, appeared so noble." Of good New England stock (his father fought in the Continental Army), Daniel Webster was born (1782) in Franklin, N. H., died 70 years later on his Massachusetts farm. Between those dates he had been lawyer, Congressman (from New Hampshire, from Massachusetts). Senator (from Massachusetts), twice Secretary of State (under Presidents Tyler and Fillmore), "Defender of the Constitution." After an education at 13-year-old Phillips Exeter Academy and at Dartmouth, where "most of the stereotyped reminiscences of his friends seem to indicate that he was something of a prodigy and prig," Webster set his foot...