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President Murray Bartlett of Hobart College will conduct the morning services at 8.45 o'clock today in the Appleton Chapel of the Memorial Church...
Such were the surface qualities, coating innate efficiency, ambition and commonsense, which Helen Rogers of Appleton, Wis. carried out of Barnard College 31 years ago. She wanted to teach, but Elisabeth Mills Reid, handsome, gracious wife of Editor Whitelaw Reid of the New York Tribune, wanted her as social secretary. Wisely she chose Miss Rogers. When President Theodore Roosevelt in 1905 sent Whitelaw Reid to the Court of St. James's, Secretary Rogers went along. There she met the Reid's fun-loving Son Ogden, just out of Yale. Mrs. Whitelaw Reid, who had a deep affection...
...TIGER by Don Skene (Appleton-Century, $1.50) Funny -- and pumy. A tongue-in-the-cheek torne about prize fighters. Introduction by Damon Runyon to this writer's "first" sets a fast pace. The book keeps...
Among the summer improvements in University buildings, the extensive alteration and redecoration of the interior of Appleton Chapel is the most important...
Joel Chandler Harris was primarily a workaday newspaper man who for 24 years wrote editorials and features for the Atlanta Constitution. It was the Constitution which first printed an "Uncle Remus" story and D. Appleton & Co. which first persuaded its author to put a group of them in book form. (First edition: 1880.) A serious student of folklore and Southern dialects, Joel Harris claimed no invention for his stories, contended that he merely compiled them from tales told to him by Negroes...