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There are few U. S. embassies that have been better filled than that at Tokyo since last fall. It was slightly less than a year ago that Mr. Coolidge named Edgar Addison Bancroft, Ambassador to Japan (TIME, Sept. 8). The new Ambassador was a Chicago lawyer who had never before held public office. He had been attorney for several railways-the Santa Fe, the Chicago & Western Indiana-and for the International Harvester Co. He had come into prominence in 1894 when he procured an injunction against the railway strikers who had tied up almost all the railways entering Chicago...
Marietta College (Marietta .Ohio) was visited by Vice President Charles G. Dawes, '84, and by Byron Bancroft Johnson, President of the American Baseball League. Crowds cheered as Mr. Johnson received an honorary A.B. degree, allegedly so flustering the proud recipient that he had difficulty in readjusting the unfamiliar academic cap as he retreated to his chair...
Third University Crew--Stroke, Gale; 7, Bancroft; 6, Weymer; 5, Theopold; 4, Huntington; 3, Tilt; 2, Watts; bow, Farnum; cox., Thorndike...
Freshman manager, Nicholas Biddle, of New York City; Assistant Freshman manager, John McAfee Preston, of Mount Kisco, N. Y.; Freshman 150-pound manager, Brian Bancroft Long, of Stamford, Conn.; Chairman of Freshman Regatta Committee, Robert William Sawyer Jr. 1E.S., of Winchester; Regatta Committee, John Bailey Fox, of Hingham; Ronald Macdonald Stearns, of New York City; George Seth Nichols, of Brookline...
...active pall bearers are Professor Bancroft Beatley '11, Mr. Park Carpenter G. '16, Mr. Norman W. Fradd, and Mr. Edward Wachter...