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...Harvard. More than 300 scholarships, varying from $100 to $650 each and totalling about $137,000, are available for undergraduates, and the income, totalling over $50,000, from various funds, is devoted to assisting worthy students who do not receive scholarships. Over 100 Freshmen alone receive assistance from the Cobb and Price Greenleaf, Funds, and for some 100 Freshmen scholarships are also available. The Price Greenleaf Fund, for example, distributes about $16,000 annually in individual amounts of $250. For this recipients are expected to perform certain duties in the college office or elsewhere, but it is to be noted...
GOIN' ON FOURTEEN-Irvin S. Cobb- Doran ($2.50). John C. Calhoun Custer had his 13th birthday the day before the first page of this book. He is spiritual brother to "Penrod," to "Huck Finn," to "Tom Bailey," to all the other naughty urchins whose pranks bring reminiscent lumps to shriveled throats. The story-or series of stories-is true to form. There are adventures with dogs and cats, a treasure-hunting expedition, the inevitable circus, a running away from home. There is tragedy when the village bad boy dies to rescue a contemporary from drowning. The book is like...
...following men completed their work in the Advanced Camp satisfactorily: John Adams Jr. '25, N. D. W. Allen '25, Donald Bourne '25, G. D. Braden '25, G. T. Chase Jr. '25, F. McM. Cobb '25, C. C. Curtis '25, D. J. Danker Jr. '25, J. G. Flint '25, Alexander Frazer Jr. '25, John Griffin '25, J. W. Hammond '25, C. D. Hazard '25, Carl Hiller '26, J. D. Hills '24, P. A. Hodges '25, T. S. Hope Jr. '25, W. Emmanuel Kurland '25, E. A. Meadows '25, A. T. Merian '25, C. P. Morehouse '25, W. A. Morrison...
...There is likewise the morning World (steadfast in the principles of its founder, Joseph Pulitzer) for which the late Frank Cobb created the most notable editorial page in America. He was wholly untrammeled, as is his successor, Walter Lippmann...
...Sorolla y Bastida, Spanish painter; Mr. Rockefeller to fill the vacancy caused by the death of James Shannon, of London. It was said that Mr. Rockefeller's election was prompted by the fact that he had donated 18,000,000 francs ($900,000) to various French causes." Tyrus R. Cobb, Manager of the Detroit American League Baseball Club: "In a newspaper interview at Toronto, I repeated that next year I shall not play regularly with my team, advocated baseball as a British national sport. Said I: 'If I had my time over again, I would probably be a surgeon instead...