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...years of Dr. Thayer's Headmastership, Mrs. Thayer has been his constant and never failing assistant. From the day a boy enters St. Mark's at the age of twelve as a first former he is always conscious of Mrs. Thayer's care and thoughtfulness. For 36 years on an average of five nights a week she has given her time and charm to entertaining the boys of the various six forms, and to numberless returning graduates, their wives and children she invariably offers the warm welcome of a home. To St. Mark's graduates...
...organ to be installed at my countryplace, "Longwood," Chester County, Pa., containing 10,374 pipes and 205 stops, is now being installed by the Aeolian Company in the conservatory at Longwood, where concerts are given from 3 until 5 o'clock every Sunday afternoon On the first and third Sundays of the month the conservatories, gardens and greenhouses, and organ concert are open to the public at an admission fee of 50?, receipts being divided between five hospitals, two in Chester County, Pa., and three in Wilmington, Delaware. (The conservatories and gardens are open free of charge every week...
David Starr Jordan, first President of Stanford University, has often remarked: "We do not wish to put the Stanford 'stamp' on a man; each Stanford man is as different as another Stanford man." WILLARD F. BARBER New York City...
...first time since March 4, 1927, all 96 seats in the U. S. Senate were last week legally filled. Governor John S. Fisher of Pennsvlvania rounded out the roster by appointing Joseph R. Grundy of Bristol in place of William Scott Vare, rejected. The transformation of Mr. Grundy ?"Old Joe" as he likes his friends to call him?from a tariff archlobbyist to a full-fledged Senator caused some of his more volatile colleagues to gag and splutter furiously. In the end, for all the uproar against him, he took his seat with the apparent certainty of retaining...
...first match of the year will be with M. I. T. on January...