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Viscount Morley of Blackburn, better known as John Morley, the philosopher-statesman friend of Gladstone, died last week at the age of 84 from heart failure...
...earlier years when he opposed the eight-hour day for labor-an attitude which cost him his seat in Parliament for Newcastle. From 1896 to 1908 he represented Montrose Burghs. Then came the triumph of his conservative soul: he was elevated to the Peerage as Viscount Morley of Blackburn. Other Liberals have become Peers, but Lord Morley had been previously opposed to the power of the Lords; it was an institution which should be " mended or ended." He continued, however, to support the Veto Bill, which finally curbed the power of the Lords...
...Marshall, Kent, Blackburn, and other famous English and American judges were to come back today, they would find rules, laws, and situations which they had never heard of; but they would be able to take the material that they had in their day and mold it to meet the changing conditions in the new problem. . . . That is the object of the Harvard Law School," said Dean Pound Hon. '20, in his address to the new students of the University Law School last night in Peabody Hall of the Phillips Brooks House...
...congenial meeting place, the management has transferred the pictures of athletic teams which formerly decorated the walls, to positions along the stairways, and is hanging in their stead a number of paintings borrowed from Memorial Hall, Fogg Museum, and other college buildings. Among these paintings is one by Blackburn, the Colonial artist, of Johannes Lowell, a former Fellow and benefactor of the University, several portraits of other prominent graduates and officers, and a work by Felix Ziem of a view in Venice. The stag and elk heads and athletic trophies will, of course, be kept in the room...
...batting orders: HARVARD. LAFAYETTE. Mahan, p. l.f., Edwards Wingate, s.s. 1b., Myers Clark, 2b. c.f., Scheeren Ayres, 3b. 3b., Helfrich Nash, 1b. c., Wright Gannett, r.f. r.f., Blackburn Milholland, c.f. 2b., Brown Hardwick, l.f. s.s., Tozell Waterman, c. p., Hammer