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With flunkeys in scarlet posted at portals blossoming with hydrangea, the annual Royal Academy exhibition opened last week in London's Burlington House. Prime Minister James Ramsay MacDonald and his daughter Ishbel were first to arrive, followed by hordes of British socialites. The best-dressed gentlemen and worst-dressed ladies in the world gathered in the galleries, talked very loudly, paid but scant attention to the pictures. Less notable people, among whom was a bland Chinaman with a topper and a green orchid, found a few exhibits to interest them...
...present were two still able women doctors-Ellen Alfleda Wallace, 77, and Mary Shepherd Danforth, 80, both of Manchester, N. H. Nodding to them venerably were Drs. George W. Gale, 93, of Saugus, Mass., Chester M. Ferrin, 93, of Burlington, Vt., and oldest of them all, probably the oldest medical graduate in the U. S., almost certainly the oldest practitioner, certainly the Medical Centre's cornerstone layer, Merritt Henry Eddy, 97, of Middlebury, Vt. The noise of the police motorcycles and sirens which accompanied the old doctors through Boston, the playing of the Navy Band before the Massachusetts State...
...been awarded a Charles Elliott Perkins Scholarship. Four of these scholarships were established in 1909 by Mrs. Charles Elliott Perkins, in memory of her husband. Of the four, one is awarded to a resident of Iowa living in that part of the state now served by the Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy railroad. A second is given to a student in any Iowan high school whatsoever. The last two are for graduates of any Iowan college or university who are now doing work at one of the Harvard Graduate or Professional Schools. Announcement of the awarding of the other three scholarships...
...Nest In Burlington, Vt., an English sparrow built its nest in the mane of Tommy Woolworth, horse...