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...Lester, had been eagerly awaiting him for weeks (TIME, July 13). Among the volunteer workers of the Settlement House eager to skim the Mahatma's goat's milk were the Misses Frances Perry of Topeka, Kan., Mildred Osterhaut of Vancouver, B. C. and Camille Solomon of No. 552 West 150th Street, New York...
Your article entitled "Exeter's 150th" in the issue of June 15 was decidedly off-color (if you will pardon me for saying so) in many respects. For your own benefit Exeter won first place in the competition for the Phi Beta Kappa Trophy sponsored by Harvard University in which the outstanding preparatory schools in New England were entered. This would seem to prove that Exeter is more "potent scholastically" than other schools of its kind, despite your contention to the contrary...
Last week Thomas William Lament, outstanding Morgan partner, went back to Exeter, whence he was graduated in 1888, strolled about the elm-shaded Yard, greeted friends and classmates, some 2,000, who like him had come back to the old school to celebrate her 150th birthday. From the Yard Mr. Lament could not see the modern, red-brick Lament Infirmary, whose crack contagious ward is an echo of the time Mr. Lamont had scarlet fever at Exeter.* But he could see the modest basement offices of the school paper, the Exonian, where his sons, Corliss and Austin ("Egg"), spent much...
...true to its New England traditions, Exeter welcomed to its 150th anniversary not primarily men of wealth or family but men of learning. At the commemorative exercises, the platform was crowded with the deans and presidents of the great Eastern colleges and schools. Speech of the day was that of President Abbott Lawrence Lowell, of Harvard, who asked for less coddling and babying in modern education, declared that a child should read "fluently" at five and "certainly at six" and went on to say: "This retardation runs through the whole process. In the secondary school we study what should have...
Occasion for this and other similar meetings in New York last week was the 150th anniversary of the Grand Lodge of Free & Accepted Masons of New York State. While not the first "regular" Lodge established in North America, the New York unit was among first to have its charter renewed from London after the Revolution; it is the biggest in the world, with 1,026 lodges, 347,000 members...