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Several promotions have been made in the faculty of the Harvard Medical School and the School of Public Health. H. P. Mosher '92 formerly assistant professor of laryngology, has been promoted to a full professorship, and Stanley Cobb '10 formerly assistant professor is now professor of neuropathology...
...International League (Baltimore, Rochester, Toronto, Buffalo, Reading, Syracuse, Newark, Jersey City) the pennant was won by Baltimore for the fifth consecutive year- said to be a world's record. Baltimore players who batted .300 or more for the season include: First Base Sheedy, Right Field Jacobson, Catcher Cobb, Third Base Porter, Shortstop Boley. Chief Bender, once of the Philadelphia Athletics, was a member of the pitching staff. James Dunn has managed the Baltimores since...
...such well known members as Messrs. Taft, Davis, Butler, Wickersham, Hughes, and the visiting Lord Birkenhead and Dr. E. S. Zeballos of Argentina. John W. Davis, President, opened the ceremonies with an orthodox defense of the Supreme Court. He made obvious reference to a recent article by Frank I. Cobb (Editor of The New York World) on Our Stagnant Democracy* and denied that the Supreme Court closed the avenues of social progress. Mr. Associate Justice Pierce Butler, who lives in St. Paul, animadverted upon the disuses of radicalism in colleges. This reference was taken to be a defense of himself...
...Tyrus R. Cobb, Detroit's famed baseball player: "In a game against the Philadelphia Athletics I exchanged blows with Third Baseman Riconda, of the opposing team, because he blocked my path as I slid into the base. Thirteen years ago, when another Philadelphia third baseman-' Home Run ' Baker-at-tempted similar tactics with me, I slid into him and ' spiked ' him-and there arose a great scandal...
...must be difficult to be a good humorist and still remain a human being. Irvin Cobb has done that; but, after all, his humor is Brobdingnagian. It partakes of brown gravy, and of cream puffs thrown wantonly. F. P. A. is occasionally human, though at times he seems to become the war sage looking at life through the war glasses of an ironist. Robert C. Benchley is almost human. Perhaps if I could see him weep once, I should actually believe in his humanity. Thomas Masson is human; but his humor is the genial story. He is the raconteur...