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President Lowell replied to an address by Professor Alderman of the University of Virginia, in which the latter welcomed the guests, among whom were Jules Jusserand, French Ambassador to the United States, Westmoreland Davis, governor of Virginia, and Dr. Julian A. C. Chandler, president of the College of William and Mary...
Unfortunately it is all too true that in a very great many instances, popular elections throughout the country are only attended by a comparative minority. Smaller issues and candidates for petty positions are almost uniformly neglected by the better class of citizens. Hence there comes into power the crooked alderman and the "gang boss." This latter type could not exist if the voting privilege were universally used...
...University of Virginia also is teaching navigation. Dr. Edwin O. Alderman, President, writes...
Voted on recommendation of the Administrative Board of the Medical School to award the following first-year Medical School students scholarships for the year 1916-17: David Williams Cheever Scholarship to G. E. Cheley; Francis Skinner Fund to R. D. Stillman; George Haven Scholarships to M. Alderman, G. E. Gayler, D. D. Lyon, H. B. Marble, E. C. Romberg, H. S. Fickle, W. E. Savage, J. M. Lonely, R. E. Merrill, E. E. O'Neil, W. D. Scudder, S. H. Weiner, R. R. Wheeler, W. A. Yoakam...
...other characters are for the most part ludicrous in themselves, and the situations into which they are put are calculated to bring out their idiosyncrasies in the funniest manner. There is an alderman who "bosses" town and council and is in turn "bossed" by a Xantippian wife. There is a dapper young insurance agent who undertakes to get his friend out of trouble, and instead draws him into a mesh of complications. There is a group of aldermen typifying various stages of conservatism, churlishness and inebriation...