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Last week the following were news: Charles Wilbur Miller was not re-elected president of Davison Chemical Co. When the Company issued its statement for the year ended June 30, much comment was caused by the following write-off: "Provision for loss in realization of advances made to president of company and interest thereon-$705, 284.32."† Elected in Mr. Miller's place was Henry E. Treide, executive vice president of the company for a year, a director of Baltimore Trust Co. and of Baltimore Mail Steamship Co., which he helped form...
...mellowing into silver chimes. It was the University of Chicago's first carillon concert. In the 200-ft. tower of the chapel, Carilloneur Kamiel Lefévere, humped on his bench, was striking with clenched fists the keys of a huge 72-note instrument, the second that John Davison Rockefeller has given in memory of his mother Laura Spelman Rockefeller, who liked bells. The stone tower seemed to shake as the concussions of big bronze bells struck the walls of the stone bell room, tongued back & forth. All together the bells weigh 220 tons; the biggest, 17 tons...
...Chairman of the executive committee has been Yale's Professor of Public Health, Dr. Charles-Edward Amory Winslow. For custodian of the $1,000,000 the committee organizers chose President Winthrop Williams Aldrich of the Chase National Bank, charitarian brother-in-law of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. They picked Economist Harry Haskell Moore, to direct the study...
...program this year which will be given on the evenings stated at 8.15 o'clock, has been arranged by Dr. A. T. Davison '06, director of the University choir. The carols to be sung this year are "The First Nool"; "Wassail Song", by Vaughan Williams; "Chanson Joyouse", by F. A. Geraert; "Bring a Torch, Jennette, Isabella", an old French carol harmonized by Nurm; "Christians Song of the 14th Century", by Bodenschatz; "Shepherds Shake Off Your Drowsy Sleep", a Besancon carol; "Silent Night, Holy Night"; and "Hallolujah Chorus" from Handel's "Messiah...
...series of chamber music concerts will be given by the Chardon String Quartet in Brattle Hall on five Thursday evenings, December 15, January 19, February 16, March 16, and April 20 respectively, it was announced yesterday. E.B. Hill '94, Chairman of the Division of Music, and A.T. Davison '06, Professor of Choral Music and Director of the Glee Club, are two of the sponsors of the sponsors of the project...