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Conductor of last week's auction was Ward T. Bower, chief of the Alaskan Division of the Bureau of Fisheries. Long an expert on the seal industry, he joined the Bureau in 1903, has since made twelve trips to Alaska to see how things were going. Proud of Alaska's seals, he wants no confusion between this fur-bearing variety (Callorhinus alascanus) and the common hair-seal. Alaska has 80% of the world's fur seals. Besides seals, the Pribilof Islands are well stocked with foxes. From these the U. S. gets another item of profit...
Home last week from Russia, Mr. & Mrs. Ely Culbertson, handsome young exponents of a bidding system of their own,* reiterated their disdain for Bridge Headquarters, Inc., called it a "merger of has-beens and never-wases." Said facetious Expert Culbertson: "When I was arrested for speaking Russian with suspicious fluency, I offered to play the head of the secret service a [Sidney] Lenz problem in order to prove that I was merely . . . Culbertson. . . . But the chief could not find a deck of cards with kings or queens in the pack. . . . Even with the provisional deck he agreed . . . that...
Harvard men, particularly Harvard athletes, feel keenly a regret that the pressure of a growing practice necessitates the resignation of Dr. Richards. His expert and sympathetic medical advice and service have made him far more than a valuable asset to Harvard teams...
...Richards joined the Harvard staff in 1919, immediately after his graduation from Medical School, as assistant to Dr. E. C. Nichole. After two years of apprenticeship he assumed the position he has had for the past ten years. He is known as one of the most expert of the younger surgeons around Boston and has gained wide recognition. Those who did not know him will recall him, however, as the man who always ran out on the football field first as soon as any Harvard man was injured...
...millions turn for economic leadership; history clearly shows the indifferent ruling class its way to destruction. The Age of the Machine has brought shorter hours for man's work. Culture of construction must follow or this new leisure is achieved in vain. Harvard shall not be backward in the expert consideration of these problems of transition...