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...Collier is not a college graduate but is an honorary member of the class of '15 at Dartmouth. When asked why he chose that particular class he said "that if I had gone to college I would have entered in 1901, and I figured that I would have graduated just about then...
Franklin P. Collier, well-known cartoonist and creator of Otto Grow, will speak at the Union on Wednesday, March 24, on "The Trials of a Cartoonist's Life." Mr. Collier has been drawing for 20 years and has spoken at the University and at Dartmouth in previous years. His talk at the Union last year was warmly received by a large audience and Mr. Collier was greatly amused at the time to see the rush at the conclusion of his lecture for the drawings which he had hastily done as illustrations. His lecture this year will be on similar topics...
...announced his intention of bringing Otto with him, together with several members of Otto's family. Mr. Collier has been drawing Otto for the last eight years, and has been so successful that he has added considerably to the family, of which the most prominent members are May, his wife; Mrs. Lotts Biggar, his mother-in-law; Dewey and Wanna, the twins, and Lotta, Kenny, and Willie, the other children. Mr. Collier freely makes additions to the family whenever he finds it to be to his advantage. In satirizing prominent people or current events he puts a squashed...
...four years Otto had no name and was known in society merely as "the Little Guy." Mr. Collier then offered a prize of $10 for a name and received 1400 suggestions...
...Standard Oil Co. of New Jersey owned until 1911, when the Government forced the disintegration of that corporation. Its directors last year were K. R. Kingsbury, R. J. Hanna, F. H. Hillman, H. M. Storey, R. C. Warner, A. B. Brooks, H. T. Harper, W. H. Berry, H. D. Collier and R. W. Hanna, all of San Francisco...