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...grandmothers with a purpose." But in spite of this exuberance of outlook, the conference presents a creditable list of women actively participating. Mrs. Herbert Hoover will be Chairman; Mrs. Robert Lansing, Secretary. The speakers scheduled include Mrs. Carrie Chapman Catt, Mrs. Mabel Walker Willebrandt (Assistant Attorney General), Major Roy Asa Haynes (National Prohibition Chief), Senator Frank B. Willis...
...Asa M. Wallace, editor of The Herald of Sauk Center, Minn., the town which furnished the original for Gopher Prairie in Sinclair Lewis' novel, Main Street, called on Mr. Coolidge. Speaking to reporters, Editor Wallace said: "Main Street may be slow and has its prejudices, but it's strong for a square deal. . . . New York is the biggest small town in the country...
...must give a free field to all the finest qualities of human nature, for that is the only salvation for democracy. Think how Oliver Wendell Holmes enlarged the conception of human sagacity, penetration, and discrimination combined with great power, of expression in both prose and poetry. Think how Asa Gray, Benjamin Pierce, and others, were the leaders of thought in science and especially in American science and the methods of teaching...
...Maxim, now in his 71st year, who invented Maximite, Stabillite, Motorite, the U. S. variety of smokeless powder and many other explosive marvels, turned his inventive genius upon the 18th Amendment, and arrived at the conclusion that Prohibition Commissioner Roy Asa Haynes should bring suit against hotels and restaurants that sell coffee and tea. Said he: "I have consulted some of the most eminent legal authorities in the country and I speak with their authority when I tell you that if all manner of alcoholic liquors were served at this dinner the provisions of the 18th Amendment would...
...Council also appointed three committees, Corliss Lamont '24 is the chairman of the scholarship committee, the other members of which are: F. E. Bowman '24, H. T. Dunker '25, J. H. Finley '25, and H. P. Curtis '25. Asa Davis '24 will head the committee in charge of the Friday afternoon teas which begin at the Union November 30. Other members are F. S. Hill '24, J. U. Harris '24, W. L. Boyden '25, T. L. Eliot '25. No chairman has been selected for the entertainment committee. Its membership, however, will consist of the assistant managers of all sports...