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...obtained here are not unsocial beings. In fact they often come from places where the social side of life is overstressed. Too many of them, it must be admitted, come here from the untaught hinterlands where such a composition as the letter in this column is more a custom than a grand mistake. Not one effort is made, except for those futile flairs of comradle which the Union attempts, to make them appreciate the comfort which is associated with a true Harvard existence, that comfort bred of being with active minds in social intercourse of that sort so much...
Died. Mrs. Esther Nicholls Davis, 74, mother of Secretary of Labor James J. Davis; at Sharon, Pa. She had seen James rise from a puddler's assistant in the iron works to Cabinet rank. Following an old Welsh custom, and in accord with her wish, Mrs. Davis's four sons, James, Walter, Davis, Samuel, and a grandson were pallbearers...
...custom of the Ku Klux Klan in recent years to make an annual splurge in Washington, D. C., so that mere laymen can gaze on the marching "brothers." This festival on Pennsylvania Avenue has come to be a barometer by which the relative annual potency of the K. K. K. may be judged. In the eyes of "Mr. Average Citizen," who thinks of crowds in terms of the several 100,000 Manhattanites who welcomed Gertrude Ederle and who fought to see the corpse of Rudolph Valentino, the K. K. K. performances of the last two years in Washington have been...
...that I called upon General Silvestre of the Spanish Army at Mellila in the interest of my tribe, the Beni Uriaghel, who wanted 100,000 pesetas ($15,000) to keep the peace that year with the Spanish. This was the custom of the strong Moroccan tribes at that time. The Spaniards have many times bought peace...
...Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank and Dwight W. Morrow of J. P. Morgan & Co. Finally Mr. Mellon dropped in at the U. S. Embassy and was reminded of a duty by able Chargé d'Affaires Sheldon Whitehouse. Mr. Whitehouse informed Mr. Mellon that in deference to custom he must call on the Premier of France, M. Poincaré. Moreover, added Mr. Whitehouse, Foreign Minister Briand had already put off his departure for the League session at Geneva for a day in expectation of a call from Mr. Mellon...