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...will attract chief attention. There are two reasons. His is the first speaking voice of the day after the Sheriff of Middlesex County has called the meeting and the Chairman of the Board of Preachers has spoken in prayer. Also Ogle will talk in Latin, as was always the custom in casting greetings on behalf of the Class...
White-haired Mrs. Samuel D. Riddle, wife of Philadelphia's 76-year-old turfman, has a sentimental custom: when Trainer George Conway thinks there is an especially promising race horse in her husband's stable, she knits him a woolen pommel cloth. Knitted pommel cloths went to Crusader, Scapa Flow, War Glory. Most famed horse that got one was their sire, Man o' War. Latest beneficiary of Mrs. Riddle's knitting needles is another one of Man o' War's sons, an undersized three-year-old named War Admiral. Last week, War Admiral made...
...manufacturer who wants to accomplish anything within this frame gives a sum of money to the Mellon Institute. This finances what, in euphemistic imitation of university custom, is called a "fellowship." Director Edward Ray Weidlein of the Institute then hires one or more expert "fellows," tells them to get to work with any of the equipment in the $6,000,000 aluminum-trimmed establishment which Andrew Mellon and his late brother Richard provided. All the worker is bound to do is to give Mr. Weidlein a weekly report of progress. If a Mellon "research" ends profitably, the worker...
Last night the Harvard Glee Club gave the first of its series of Spring concerts on the steps of Widener, thus continuing a custom which forms an integral and valuable part of Harvard life. The whole ceremony is conducted in a pleasant, easy and informal fashion. The program is a combination of classical music and lighter pieces. The calibre of the singing is excellent, but there is no attempt at regimentation, as there is at Princeton, where everyone must stand up for certain songs, and only certain classes may sing others. To leave a Princeton song session, or be inattentive...
...fact, departments draw up such continual pleas for money, that there is now a prevalent custom of choosing for Visiting Committees, men of well-known purse liberality...