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...increase in tuition fees at Cornell is "under consideration" by the administration. Treasurer Lewis H. Durland disclosed earlier this week...
Died. William Durland, 81, oldtime Manhattan riding master, in Manhattan. On his horses had ridden many a U. S. President, many a Vanderbilt, Gould, Belmont, Ryan. In a lawsuit, Mr. Durland was once voluntarily defended by the late Senator Roscoe Conkling of New York and the late Robert Green ("Fighting Bob") Ingersoll, famed agnostic. "When that pair got through talking," said Mr. Durland, "the judge just took it away from the jury and dismissed the complaint...
Hotelman Bowman, a product of Toronto, got his first job in a Yonkers haberdashery. After hotel-clerking for some time in the South and the Adirondacks he went to work in Durland's Riding Academy, Manhattan. When Durland's passed a rule that the riding masters had to wear uniforms, John Bowman rebelled, resigned, set up his own small academy. He had few horses and little cash but the venture was prosperous enough when he left it to take charge of wines and cigars in Gustav Bauman's oldtime Holland House. When Bauman put up the Biltmore...
...Reign," by K. Durland...
...Copeland will introduce the first speaker, Mr. Durland, who will give an illustrated talk on his own experiences in Russia. Mr. Durland was born in New York, attended Harvard for a time, and then went to the Universities of Edinburgh and Paris. He was in Russia at the time when the Czar made his famous speech at the opening of the Duma, reporting for Harper's Weekly. The things which he tells of in his talk were witnessed by his own eyes, and the pictures he shows, are very vivid witnesses of these sights...