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...Gompers, who with the exception of one year has been president of the American Federation of Labor since 1882, has been associated with the cause of labor since his fifteenth year. He was born in England in 1850, but came to America when still young and began work as a cigarmaker, which has been his official trade ever since. Mr. Gompers was one of the founders of the Federation of Labor and has been editor of its magazine; in addition he has written a number of pamphlets and articles on labor subjects, and one book. "Labor in Europe and America...
...They are colored by hand in the characteristic manner in this early time. A number of printed books with woodcut illustrations, lent by the Widener Library, show one of the most important uses of the woodcut and represent the art of book-illustration as it was practiced in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries in Germany...
Professor Guy is Dean of the Faculty of Letters at the University of Toulouse and is one of the greatest living authorities on French literature of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries...
Definite arrangements have now been completed for a joint concert with the Smith College Oratorio Chorus, which will be given in Northampton on the fifteenth of January...
Coach James L. Knox '98, second team football coach at the University, speaking at the fifteenth annual convention of the National Collegiate Athlete Association, held in Chicago last week, defended scouting as practiced at Eastern universities, particularly Harvard, on the grounds that it promoted the scientific development of football. He also spoke about proselyting, stating that "reports and insinuations to the contrary notwithstanding, Harvard does not engage...