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...electing Dean Madden to the Presidency, the Board of Directors (of which, simultaneously, Dean Dexter Simpson Kimball of Cornell's Engineering College was elected Chairman) had followed an oldtime Alexander Hamilton tradition. It was Dean Joseph French Johnson of New York University's Commerce School who, 20 years ago. founded the Institute. The second. President, Jeremiah Whipple Jenks, who died two months ago, was a onetime N. Y. U. accounting professor. Many a N. Y. U. pedagog has written textbooks, broadcast charts for the 358,442 students and "old boys" of the Institute...
...Cambridge, Mass., atop the solemn, Georgian bulk of Harvard Hall there is a cupola where, one morning long ago, early risers were astonished to behold a horse & buggy. In another Harvard Hall, banquet room of the Boston Harvard Club, there were assembled, one night last week, some 400 members of the Yale and Harvard Clubs of Boston, the Yalemen guests of the Harvardmen. Each alumni body had brought along its university president. All understood it to be the first meeting of its kind in history...
Fortnight ago, ushers at the Harvard-Dartmouth football game impounded a dozen gate-crashing moppets in a wire cage beneath the Soldiers Field stadium. Tiresome children! Lock them...
Lawyers Newton and Cobbs claimed the Government's case was weak because: 1) the Government could not prove that the mongooses had been imported. They were bought two years ago for $40 each from a reputable animal dealer; 2) both were males, which eliminated any chance of multiplication. While Zoo officials obtained a stay of execution and the lawyers sought the right to defend the condemned, St. Louisans flocked to see a mongoose. Fed on horse, goat and cow meat by Zoo-man George P. Vierheller, the two martyrs grew...
...Tail Waggers' Club grew out of a drive made a year ago in England by the Royal Veterinary College. President of the world organization is The Rt. Hon. The Earl of Chesterfield...