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Died. Professor Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, 81, noted statistician, Emeritus Professor of Political Economy at Oxford, contributor of the article on "Probability" to the 11th edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica; at Oxford, England...
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...Conway is perhaps best known for his writings in his general field. Besides his many books, he was a contributor to the Encyclopedia Britannica on the languages and on the ethnography of ancient Italy...
...author of the truest quality, and his voice?a voice of liquid gold?is lent to every civic cause. He is a trades unionist in principle and practice but believes in the open shop. He is a fighting pacifist. He is the only man of whom the Encyclopedia Britannica reversed its opinion completely within a decade. General Pershing said of him: "He has made possible what I have done." He is a loyal friend, a gracious enemy. In his presence conversation is rarely trivial and never low. He is not all things to all men; he is the same thing...
Died. Louis A. Coolidge, 64, prominent Republican, onetime (1888-91) private Secretary to Henry Cabot Lodge, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury (1908-09), President of the Coolidge Family Association (1920- 23), contributor of an article on the Republican party to the Encyclopedia Americana; in Milton, Mass., of sclerosis of the liver...