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When President Lowell's report was read to the Overseers on Monday afternoon a newly finished portrait of President Lowell, seated in the President's chair, hung on the North wall of the Faculty Room at University Hall, joining the gallery of former professors, donors, and presidents...
First Lieutenant Osborne C. Wood, aide to his father, made it known that he had profited to the extent of $700,000 or $800,000 by speculations in Wall Street (TIME, Jan. 7). Last week Senator Caraway, Democrat, of Arkansas, made public letters accusing Leonard Wood, Jr., former Army Captain, the older son, of having "victimized" ex-service men and others by selling them oil and bank stocks which proved to be almost valueless...
Meanwhile Wall Street began to figure. How had Wood made so much money with so little initial capital? Supposedly his chief speculation was in Standard Oil of New Jersey. But it was almost beyond belief that a young man so far away that the Stock Exchange hours of 10 A. M. to 3 P. M. were actually 11 P. M. to 4 A. M. for him?that he, at the far end of a cable, had made a fortune...
...SWAN-Removing one wall of the palace and presenting intimate glimpses of European Royalty as they appear to each other...
Palestine. Traces of the ancient city and citadel of David on Mount Ophel, near Jerusalem, were discovered by the joint expedition of the London Daily Telegraph and the Palestine Exploration Fund, under Prof. R. A. S. Macalister. The remains of a Jebusite wall and tower they found are believed to be the mysterious "Millo" mentioned in II Samuel, V, 9, "And David built round about from Millo and inward." The evidence appears to show that "Millo" was a tower or fort which existed even before the Hebrew conquest...