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Dean Wallace Brett Donham is not only an administrator, a business economist, a fancier of Cape Cod houses and the works of Lewis Carroll, but also a banker, a director of half a dozen corporations, a close friend of many a tycoon. He established the case system of instruction, designed to ground students solidly in the practical, day-to-day problems of big corporations. Immensely proud is he of his school's high standing among corporate employers, its prowess in finding jobs for graduates in prosperity or depression...
...Philadelphia system and the Boston system. It was a difference in play occasioned by the smaller courts on which the inhabitants of Quakertown were accustomed to play. Thus the Philadelphians developed a game that included a vast array of wall shots, while the sons of the bean and the cod were quite content to play to the front wall...
After the recent protrusion upon the cod-fish commonwealth of Hon. James M. (Five-Cent) Curley, there should be few, indeed, who care to dispute Dr. Wilson's suggestion that it is high time for those who dispense knowledge in the public school system to begin dealing in the facts of life. It is a point needing little re-emphasis that the semi-literacy which is weaned on the diet dished out by earnest graduates of the neighboring normal school provides a noble share of the tragic humor in any democracy. It enthusiastically fosters huey longs and pink toothbrush...
Qualifications: "Comes from rugged pioneer stock--seafarers and pioneers of Cape Cod...
...cringed as another fragment thudded into the ground a scant 100 ft. away. One worker hastened to the spot, found the meteorite too hot to handle. A man near Newburyport saw a fireball with a 15 ft. trail splash into the ocean a half-mile from shore. Over Cape Cod a cloud of smoke which obscured the sun was reported. Elsewhere at least six other meteorites were declared to have fallen in the water or on land. Only meteorite recovered was the Salisbury Beach fragment. When cool enough to pick up it was found to be a pitted, fused...