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...Michigan State College of Agriculture, six pacifist leaders, including the pastor of the Unitarian Church of Ann Arbor, were tossed into the Cedar River. C. In Philadelphia, thanks to the support of the Board of Education and University of Pennsylvania's President Thomas Sovereign Gates, attendance at high school and college meetings reached 30,000, with more Quakers than Communists in evidence...
Clear, straight-grained Western cedar, selected and sent to Cambridge by Lewis H. Mills '14, a former Varsity oarsman, was used instead of the Spanish cedar of which all the shells now in use are made. This last named wood was usually ordered from South America by the H.A.A. and the future shells arrived as heavy logs. These had to be sawed, planed, and finished to the specifications of the Crimson boatbuilders after which the strips were brought out to the Newell Boat House and construction could be begun...
...York City had but one Presbyterian church, the First, in Wall Street. Its congregation quarreled, among other things, over the new-fangled hymns of Isaac Watts. So the anti-Watts faction set up their own church in Cedar Street. Successively locating in Duane Street and lower Fifth Avenue, the congregation in 1875 built a big, brownstone Gothic church which still stands at Fifth Avenue and 55th Street among clubs, hotels and big shops. Associated at one time or another with such old New York names as Auchincloss, Sloane, Leeds, Agnew, Gracie, Varick and Aspinwall, the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church...
Gilbert's vaulting career began when he pulled a cedar rail off a farmer's fence near his Idaho home, whittled it into a vaulting pole. At Yale, in 1907, he discovered the fact that bamboo poles had more spring, less chance of breaking off in a point than spruce. He became the first man to clear the alarming height of 13 ft. (unofficially). When he returned from the Olympic Games in London, Vaulter Gilbert brought back 50 bamboo poles which cost $1.25 each and sold them for $25 each. After this venture he went into the magic...
Married. Grant Wood, Iowa artist (American Gothic, Dinner For Threshers -TIME, Dec. 24); and Mrs. Sara Sherman Maxon, music teacher in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where both grew up; in Minneapolis...