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News comes from Williamstown way that the Williams student body has voted to abolish the time honored custom of electing class officers in favor of representation on the student council. The move was inaugurated in order to do away with officers whose duties are so small as to make them unnecessary...
...meeting last night of the eight Junior members of Phi Beta Kappa, Arnold Louis Kowarsky '31, of Brooklyn, New York, was chosen secretary-treasurer from the Class of 1931. Custom makes the secretary-treasurer Marshal of the society in his Senior year...
First consideration should be given to the gift. It has been the custom for many years for the class celebrating its Twenty-fifth Reunion to give to the College a gift of about $150,000. The present means of raising this fund is by direct contribution from the individual members of the Class to the Harvard Fund. All contributions going to the Harvard Fund are credited to our Class for this gift. It has been necessary in the past to supplement this amount by additional contributions raised through a "drive" organized by the permanent treasure: shortly before the "Twenty-fifth...
Practically all of the world's great composers had, at one time or other, patrons who provided their material support in order that genius might flourish unhampered. The custom is now outworn but last week in San Francisco a semblance of it reappeared when heirs of the late Jacob and Rosa Stern, wealthy Jews, established a fund whereby Jewish Com- poser Ernest Bloch will be endowed for the next ten years at the rate of $5,000 a year. Composer Bloch is regarded by many as the greatest U. S. composer.* Yet his livelihood has had to come largely...
Gold Spike. To commemorate the laying of the world's longest stretch of ''heaviest rail" (130 pounds a yard) between Chicago and New York, Pennsylvania Railroad officials last fortnight observed an ancient custom and drove a gold spike in the last link. The ceremonies took place on the Pennsylvania main line tracks at Chicago's 41st Street. Chosen to drive the spike was Foreman...