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WITHIN THIS PRESENT - Margaret Ayer Barnes-Houghton Mifflin...
Charles Francis Adams '88, president of the Harvard Alumni Association, George R. Agassiz '84, president of the Board of Overseers, Kenneth B. Murdock '16, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, and master of Leverett House, will also speak. Nathaniel F. Ayer '00, president of the Harvard Club, will act as toastmaster...
Score--Harvard 34, New Hampshire 0. Touchdowns--Dean, Lane, Adzigian, Locke, Barrett. Points after touchdown--Wells, Dean, Nevin, Whitney Referee, E. J. O'Brien, Tufts; Umpire, A. R. Lake, Lafayette; linesman, F. W. Lewis, Salem; field judge, A. R. Ayer, Colby. Time, three 15-minute and one 9-minute periods...
Many an advertiser has kicked out his agency, but few agencies have ever kicked out a good advertiser. Nonetheless. N. W. Ayer & Son, Inc. "B. A. I. S. 1869"† national agency with headquarters in Philadelphia, last week pointedly dropped the account of Canada Dry Ginger Ale. Wilfred Washington Fry, Ayer son-in-law president of the firm, is a Baptist Y. M. C. A. man, ardent Prohibitionist. He bore with Canada Dry so long as its ads went no further than to picture suggestively the cork of a gin bottle lying beside bottles of its sparkling beverages. Unreconciled...
...Hooker Hammersly she states: "He is not the man for My Sister by a long short." She must have read even her favorite authors with half an eye: "I have just read Mrs Gasgells life of Charlotte Brontë, & enjoyed it immensely, almost as much as Jane Ayer." But she was often a shrewd observer. Of General Phil Sheridan she notes: "When anyone makes a commonplace remark or says something that does not interest him, he says, 'um, um, yes. yes,' in the most aggravating manner." She quotes, though without approval, the remark of an English fellow-traveler...