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Representative Upshaw is an evangelist by profession. During the Summer it is his custom to conduct "revivals" in one or more of the Washington churches. He believes that "common sense should be a big part in religion" and has been known to adjure the male members of his audience to "take off your coat if there are no holes in your shirt. So long as the weather remains warm I intend that no one shall suffer...
November 23, the evening before the Yale game, is according to custom the date set for the Harvard-Yale dance at the Union. At a meeting of the committee in charge, yesterday afternoon, it was decided to limit the attendance to 1000 people...
Dante Pierce is the publisher of the Iowa Homestead, one of the great farm journals of that state. He will be the next Secretary of Agriculture, if the custom of appointing editors of Iowa farm journals* does not stale. Dante Pierce had much to do with putting Smith Wildman Brookhart into the Senate...
...second year, to help pay their expenses. These loans, however, are made on a strictly busines basis, bearing 6 per cent interest and maturing three years after a man leaves the School. The arrangement has been found preferable to the establishment of scholarships as is the custom in other departments of the University, for it enables the school to attract men of limited financial means and lead them to consider the business training given by the School more as an investment...
...Francais yesterday afternoon announced that it would produce one three act plays and three one act plays at the Fine Arts Theatre in Boston on the evenings of December 27, 28, and 30. This presentation of more than one play by the organization is a radical departure from the custom of the past, when two performances of only one play have been given...