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...Federal Tariff Commission, which is conducting an analysis of the sugar situation to ascertain whether the President is justified in exercising the sliding scale provisions of the Fordney-Mc Cumber Tariff Law, whereby the tariff on sugar can be reduced by 50% at the President's discretion...
Alfred E. Stearns, Principal, Phillips Andover Academy: "The fads and frills that now cumber our school curriculum make little appeal to a teacher of character, culture and vision. Our country needs?not better artisans, mechanics, bookkeepers and business men ? but better and more intelligent citizens. . . . The great problems of today, common not only to this country but to the world, are chiefly human, not economic...
...Inca history, there was a highly developed written language, consisting of signs and symbols which I cannot describe here, and written most often on dried jugilatsi or plantain leaves, sometimes on another leaf like the elephant-ear or burdock--these being unaccountably preferred for public writings because of their cumber-some size Now it came to pass (as they say in the fairy stories) that one season the burdock leaves all withered, and the sun-prophets prophesied evil, declaring that the almighty Sun was withered the leaves because of displeasure at what was written thereon. So the rulers...
...Gourdin, Moore, Ryan, Stevenson, Williams; 220-yard dash.--Flower, Gourdin, Goodwin, Moore, Ryan, Stevenson, Williams; 440-yard dash. Costigan, Church, Davis, Douglass, Flower, Goodwin, Howe, O'Connell, Ryan, Stevenson, Willet; 880-yard run.--Constigan, Douglass, Duggan, Goodwin, Lewis, Lucas, O'Connell, Stevenson, Worral; one-mile run.--Ames, Costigan, Chase, Cumber, Hutchinson, Lewis, Lucas, O'Connell, Perrin, Page, Wason, Worral; two-mile run.--Ames, Bond, Chase, Cumber, Hutchinson Lewis, Lucas, Nally, O'Connell, Perrin, Page, Wason, Worral; 120-Yard high hurdles. Atkinson, Church, Krogness, Rose, Tracy; 220-yard low-hurdles,--Atkinson, Church, Krogness, O'Connell, Rose, Tracy; broad jump.--Flower, Gourdin...
General Oliver O. Howard, director of the Lincoln Memorial University in Kentucky, will speak at the Old Cambridge Baptist church tomorrow evening at 7.45 o'clock on "The Education of White Boys and Girls in the Cumber land Mountains." Abraham Lincoln was born in these mountains and it was in his honor that the university was named A cordial invitation to be present is extended...