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...wall of this field there has been placed a tablet in honor of William Webb Ellis...
...Manhattan. Eight hundred and fifty-two paintings were hung, out of 2,500 submitted-a record collection, taxing the limited wall space...
...determined optimism which surged through the University will not be absent today, for they are seeking a repetition of 1922. Those to whom the week before a Yale game is something new will recognize what the spirit of the University can be when Harvard with its back to the wall fights against Yale...
These optimistic events at once split Wall Street into two schools of thought. One declared its belief that the turn had come, and that pessimistic predictions regarding 1924 had been overdone. The other, bearish to begin with, continued in that frame of mind; it viewed with cynical suspicion the remarkable coincidence of the extra Steel dividend, Judge Gary's cheerful prophecies, Broker Livermore's equally cheerful pronouncement, the upward rush in the price of the four present leading speculative stocks...
...during the ceremony; they signed the register with trembling hands. In Detroit, Mrs. Jennie P. Frazer* was married to Smith V. Fish in the presence of her three-year-old great-grandchild. In Manhattan, Saks & Co. (clothiers) alleged in an advertisement that "the best known men in Wall Street [i.e., J. Pierpont Morgan, Otto H. Kahn, Dwight W. Morrow, Jesse Livermore, Seymour L. Cromwell, etc.] are to be seen wearing our sack coats and straight cut double-breasted waistcoats with contrasting striped trousers. "Saks & Co. also cited Mr. Lloyd George as favoring the "contrasting coat and trouser idea." In Washington...