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...today were the be-all and the end-all the CRIMSON should be tempted to say, "Hence Loathed Melancholy..", and banish with a word its fears of darkest midnight born. For today is worth a deal of football. Stripped of all else today will witness a game worth much in itself. And to it will be added that accompanying virtue which comes but once a year, a wholesale association with the members of Yale University. The CRIMSON takes great pleasure in welcoming the entire Yale body to Cambridge and wishes it all the enjoyment and benefit that the occasion commands...
...present undeterminable. It is difficult to believe that Coolidge plans to bestow upon the islands the British system of colonial government without some assurance that General Wood's charges of corruption in the elementary forms of native government were untrue. The ideas of Manuel Quezon and Sergio Osmena are born of the same stuff as was the Declaration of Independence, but it is doubtful if their island is yet ready to essay a trial in government that may result in a Pacific embroglio...
...earl is the great-grandson of that Lord Elgin who found the "Elgin" marbles scattered over the Acropolis at Athens. He picked them up and carried them to England. The present earl, who lives at Dunfermline, Scotland, where Andrew Carnegie (1835-1919) was born, is an honorary colonel of the City of Edinburgh and, more importantly, chairman of the Carnegie United Kingdom Trust. That institution (endowment £2,000,000) is the analog of the Carnegie Trust Corp. of New York (endowment $125,000,000). Its purpose, Carnegie ordered, was "for the improvement of the well-being of the masses...
...anagram, of course from "Alfred Mond." He likes to toy with his name (Mondson, monsol) as much as did the late (1851-1925) soap maker Viscount Leverhulme (Lux, Rinso), who was born William Hesketh Lever and married Elizabeth Ellen Hulme...
...Author. Mark Sullivan's life has run parallel to the lives of the men he writes about. As they reached distinction, he has reached distinction in observing them, writing about them, summing up their achievements. He was born in Pennsylvania, 53 years ago. After he left Harvard in 1900, he went into newspaper work. From 1904 to 1906 he practised law in Manhattan. He has since then become perhaps the most capable captain in the army of newspaper correspondents who report and explain the turmoil of Washington politics. For five years (1912-1917) he edited Collier's Weekly...