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...triennial convention of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers in Cleveland, President William B. Prenter presented a financial proposal from Mitten Management, Inc. This corporation, headed by Thomas Eugene Mitten and his son Dr. A. A. Mitten, has been remarkably successful in operating street cars, motor busses, taxicabs and a bank in Philadelphia, also a street car line in Buffalo. Their plan has been to permit employes to share in the management, investments and profits of their enterprises...
...Durbin, businessman and Democratic politician of Kenton, who was host, was re-elected President of the Brotherhood...
...would not have been surprised to find rabbits in their beds or eggs in their shoes. For three days, their town was a hive of deft-fingered, beady-eyed men who stopped at nothing. But Kentonites were proud, for they were being entertained by 500 members of the International Brotherhood of Magicians-Harry Blackstone, Mysterious Smith, T. Nelson Downs (King of Koins), Rajah Raboid, the Hudspeths and many another. Important doings...
There are several grounds, common-place enough in the talk of the day, why these fellowships are so highly prized and why not only educators but publicists also praise them so highly. They illustrate the vision that the brotherhood of letters and community of culture knows no boundaries which restrict intercourse. Differences there are between nations in all things. But it is established among civilized peoples that these differences are meant to delight and inspire rather than to repel the scholar or the scientist. From foreign contacts, moreover, native students bring back new notions applicable, usually, to the educational system...
There are, it is true, some fraternities which form a chain of brotherhood linking certain men in Harvard with certain other men in distant institutions. And there are clubs of various sorts. To dwell on the small part played by most clubs, meaning clubs so titled and also fraternities, as factors in gradations in the Harvard social scale is aphoristic. Every one, including both club men and non-club men, realizes that one is not a pariah because he does or does not belong to a club, or because he belongs to a club the rank of which might somehow...