Word: dispatches
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hobo College, according to an Associated Press dispatch of yesterday, has given 150 diplomas and disbanded for the year. This institution, located in Chicago, has had more than 20,000 men on its roster in the past term. "One of the qualifications for graduation", says the dispatch, "was examination by a psychiatrist, the college faculty holding that prolonged vagrancy indicated a psychopathic condition." As far as a true vagabond is concerned, this is indefensible,--diplomas and examinations. What after all, is the use of vagabonding...
...Charges. Trouble was stirred up for Judge English by the St. Louis Post Dispatch, and the charges were taken up by the House and investigated. He is alleged to have been tyrannical on the bench; unwarrantedly to have disbarred attorneys; to have allowed his appointee, Charles B. Thomas, referee in bankruptcy, to have improper privileges at the bar; to have had the funds controlled by the court deposited with banks of which he and the referee were stockholders; to have committed other "improprieties and irregularities" which constitute high crimes and misdemeanors. A subcommittee of the Judiciary Committee was last week...
...recent dispatch from Tokyo brings the news of the death of Baron Sumitoino, one of the most influential of Japanese bankers. Last year Baron Sumitomo, who was much interested in the development of Oriental studies at Harvard, and particularly in the Oriental Department to be opened in the new Fogg Museum, sent the University one of the few remaining copies of his invaluable catalogue of ancient Chinese bronzes...
...cause of the aviator's withdrawal came in the form of a dispatch notifying him of his appointment as commander of the Wilkins Expedition which will try to reach the North Pole next summer. It has not yet been announced what part aeroplanes will play in the expedition but the placing in charge of an experienced aviator makes it appear probable that the attempt will again be made to fly to the Pole. Preparations for the trip are already being started in Washington and it is to supervise the preliminary organization of personnel and equipment that Lieutenant Commander Byrd...
...curious paradox that in the very state where, it is insisted, men are men and not animals, that men's actions should exhibit so few of the attributes of higher intelligence. The news stories of late have not represented Texans in at all a favorable light; the recent evolution dispatch is only one of many cases in point...