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Louis Phillips Croft 3G, of Beverly Hills, California, was awarded the first prize in the twentieth annual Topiarian Club competition, receiving the silver cup last night at a reception in Robinson Annex. His plans for the grounds of an imaginary presidential residence on Analostan Island, in the Potomac River, as required by the terms of the competition, received the unanimous vote of the four judges for first place...
Stirring speeches at the mass meeting were made by Rear-Admiral Murray Eraser Sueter, M. P., and Brigadier-General Sir Henry Page Croft. M. P., as well as by Commander Locker-Lampson, M. P. Cards printed as follows were distributed: "Do you approve of the use of Fear God! Fear Naught! as our motto? . . . the use of March On as our battle song? . . . the use of a distinctive color...
...able, experienced Scotswoman who is still Foxcroft's academic headmistress. Miss Charlotte's role was that of organizer, executive and setter of the school's atmosphere, director of its purpose. She put her girls into corduroy uniforms?dark green coats, tan skirts, white shirtwaists. In the evening Fox croft girls wear white crepe de chine, all alike, no chance for rich little girls to show...
Professor G. W. Pierce, A.M. '00, and others will explain what opportunities are open to men concentrating in Physics. A chance will be afforded to inspect the various sorts of advanced studies which are now being carried out in the Jefferson and Croft Laboratories. Those attending this informal conference will also be able in small groups to see the researches now being conducted in high pressure, spectroscopy, and high frequency electrical currents...
...freight gondolas dumped clay and ganister-Harbison-Walker, $36,000,000 brickmaking corporation, was having constructed a new type of kiln to burn silica brick. Corporation President J. E. Lewis had heard of the kiln operating at Dusseldorf, Germany, and after a talk with his Board Chairman H. W. Croft in their Pittsburgh offices had hurried to Dusseldorf to see the kiln in action. He liked it; secured the U. S. rights to its use; immediately had mechanics awork at East Chicago...