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Following tonight's game, Harvard will not be seen again in competition until December 29, when the Crimson will face McGill. Because the Harvard coach is requesting the men to curtail their Christmas recess period, and report back in Cambridge for practice on December 27, the Harvard squad will practice next week, and then be given a lay-off until two days after Christmas...
...President, TIME, May 24.) Membership now includes 1,458 Chambers of Commerce and other trade associations, which represent 15,000 firms and individuals. We now have a $3,000,000 building here in Washington. My salary is $20,000 yearly. Last September my board of directors decided to curtail my authority, to subordinate me to an Executive Council. I objected. Last week I resigned. I am a nephew of the late President Emeritus Charles W. Eliot of Harvard and have been suggested as a possible successor there to President Abbott Lawrence Lowell. I am not being considered for that post...
President Calles called upon all members of his Cabinet last week to curtail rigorously the expenses of their several departments. The State, he declared, must mobilize its every resource for the coming campaign to discipline if not extinguish the rebellious Yaqui Indians of Sonora (TIME, Sept...
...London, Sir William Arbuthnot Lane, surgeon, authority on intestinal disorders (TIME, Dec. 7), found his photograph printed on 40,000 menus of Lyons restaurants.* The printing was done without his knowledge. He needs no such publicity. Nor does such publicity injure his reputation, nor curtail his skill. None the less, the British Medical Association denounced him, even though he had resigned from it a year ago because of professional criticism of his disease prevention work.† At this time Sir William simply folded his hands and declared: "In England, if any one writes to the newspapers and signs his name...
Boycott Continued. The anti-Calles boycott of all Mexican industry by Catholics continued last week, gained little headway in Mexican cities, began to curtail seriously business in the smaller towns. Catholic zealots substituted for the conventional greeting, "Good morning," last week, the innovations, "Long live Christ!" and "Christ is our King...