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...Secretary of State in the last quarter century to go traveling out of the U. S. For the first 117 years of the country's history Secretaries of State stayed at home, conducted all foreign negotiations from the nation's capital. First to break this tradition was Elihu Root who attended a Pan-American Conference at Rio de Janeiro in 1906. Philander Chase Knox six years later toured Central and South America to soothe Latin suspicions of "dollar diplomacy." Robert Lansing attended the Paris peace conference in 1919, Charles Evans...
...without public honor in her own country, Mrs. Reid was chosen, along with Elihu Root, a presidential elector-at-large in 1924. Staunch Republican, she was glad to cast her honorary vote for Calvin Coolidge. Last year she was appointed to the Port of New York's survey to devise improvements in customs inspection. To her the State Department turned, last month, in search of shelter for its royal guests from Siam...
...reported in metropolitan newspapers, any outsiders are well aware of the tense excitement, the sense of a noble and picturesque tradition that comes to Yale on Tap Day. But there was once a time when Yale's four Senior Societies- Skull & Bones, Scroll & Key, Wolf's Head, Elihu Club-were taken more seriously than now. In that day Yale would have shuddered if its dean had said, as Dean Clarence Whittlesey Mendell said three years ago: "[The Senior Societies] must face the charge that the Senior Society men are no longer, through the Fraternities, establishing standards which...
...Weekly demanded a "new and different Yale society system, based on . . . new conditions and on those about to be inaugurated under the eleven-college [House Plan] system." Pointing out that "from a modern class of over 500 men, obviously no selection of 45 (and including the Elihu Club, which has fallen into the system, 601 men can longer be possible on the old basis," it reprinted a "courageous" letter written to the Yale Daily News by Wilder Hobson, a 1928 member of Scroll...
...Founder. Many a rich U. S. un-versity owes its name to an individual now remote and legendary?Lord Jeffrey Amherst, Elihu Yale, Ezra Cornell, Nicholas Brown, John Harvard. It is less than six years since James Buchanan Duke passed to his rest. Famed as a "log-cabin milionaire, " hero of many a stirring success story, he was born and lived not far from the new Duke campus. Durham is full of Duke cousins and fresh memories of the State's great man. Many an oldster is left who knew the great man's father, Washington Duke. The rich story...