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Died. William Candler, 46, vice president of Coca Cola Bottling Co. and proprietor of the Atlanta Biltmore Hotel, youngest son of Coca Cola's late Founder Asa Candler; of injuries received when his automobile hit a cow; in Valdosta...
...John Gorrie, sent to Washington by Florida in 1914. Dr. Gorrie is identified as the first successful maker of artificial ice in the U. S. Not long after Dr. Gorrie died in 1855 famed Botanist-Physician Alvan Wentworth Chapman and Harvard's even more celebrated Botanist Asa Gray passed Gorrie's grave during a stroll. Said Chapman: "Gray, there is the grave of the man whom we all recognize as the superior...
...Surprise-of-the-week was furnished by Princeton's Graduate Manager of Athletics. Asa S. Bushnell, who announced that this year's meet will be free, to avoid charges of track commercialization. Sportswriters, aware of the painful deficit in Princeton's athletic budget, thought the move ridiculous...
...Harvard collection is considered the most authoritative in the world in plants of the United States and South America, and is very strong in Arctic and Mexican flora. The Herbarium was founded in 1864 when Asa Gray, pioneer American botanist, gave his private collection of more than 200,000 specimens to Harvard...
...task of bringing world news of a great European embroilment was the first task to fall on shoulders of Hugh Baillie, U. S. C. '15, and journalism student who made good . . . new president or United Press . . . winner in June of the U. S. C. Asa V. Call trophy given to graduate attaining most out standing recognition in his field...