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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Died. William F. Kirk, 50, Hearst poet-humorist-baseball-writer; at Chippewa Falls, Wis.; of cancer...
Last week the University of Virginia fell heir, by the will of Graham F. Blandy, Manhattan stockbroker, to $600,000 with which it was directed to inaugurate an agricultural school. This school, when finished, will represent one more marked advance in the university's progress, under President Edwin A. Alderman (elected 1904), from a small college serving a limited class to a large university meeting the needs of a commonwealth...
...Dearth before the Senate. At the trial last week, testimony tended to show that Judge Dearth had in a variety of ways, "fixed" < his juries to give the verdicts which he, as Judge, desired. The trial moved along, strewn with puns about "dearth" a,nd "justice"; with Lieut. Governor F. Harold Van Orman of Indiana presiding; with grinning newsboys as witnesses, making the eminent senators laugh; with President Benjamin Harrison's son and grandson present, the one in the Senate, the other as one of the prosecutors from the House-and with the gadfly who brought...
...pound class F. R. Sullivan '27 of the University beat R. R. Peat-field '28 of M. I. T. and in the 125-pound class Walter Kwok, the M. I. T. captain won from Aaron Gordon '27. Kwok's onslaught was so terrific in the first minutes that it took Gorden two rounde to recover his poise, but, realizing that his opponent did not out-class him as much as he had appeared to, he fought an even third round...
University debaters who will make the Mid-Western trip during the Spring recess were announced last night by Coach J. G. Fulton. They are D. W. Chapman '27, F. W. Lorenzen '28, and Barrett Williams '29. Alternates for this team are to be E. D. Rowe '27, A. S. Reel '28, and D. T. Mantle '28. On this trip the University of Pittsburgh. Grinnell, Iowa, Iowa University, Iowa State College and Carleton College at Northfield, Minnesota, will be visited. This trip will be the first attempted since the World...