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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Competition between the English and American collegians dates back to the nineteenth century. The first set of games was held in London in 1899. Then, a team headed by J. T. Roche '99 of Harvard and T. R. Fisher '99 of Yale lost to Oxford and Cambridge...
Last week George Fisher Baker, near-billionaire chairman of Manhattan's First National Bank, gave away another million dollars and again marked himself on the public mind as a highly individualistic giver. The Rockefellers, the Harknesses and Andrew Carnegie have given their hundreds of millions. Milton Hershey (chocolates, sugar, orphans), Augustus Juilliard (commission merchant, music), Julius Rosenwald (mailorder, Jews, Negroes), James B. Duke (tobacco, waterpower, his university, preachers), Mrs. Russell Sage (railroads, surveys) have given their scores of millions. All these have given largely and chiefly to found institutions and movements they have initiated...
...Baker too has given his score million?in goodly chunks to fill specific needs. Harvard, which graduated George Fisher Baker Jr. in 1899, wanted a graduate school of business. Mr. Baker handed it a grand $5,000,000. Harvard wanted more money for the business school; he gave it another $1,000,000. The late great Henry Pomeroy Davison needed money for Red Cross work during the War; Mr. Baker gave $2,000,000. The Metropolitan Museum of Art wanted Regault's painting "Salome"; Mr. Baker presented it. It wanted money; he gave $1,000,000. Cornell University asked...
HARVARD HOLY CROSS Bassett, c.f. 2b., Harrell Nugent, 2b. c.f., Fisher McGrath, s.s. 1b., Shevlin Donaghy, 3b. l.f., Hurley Prior, 1b. s.s., Ryan Gilligan, r.f. r.f., Lawrence Ticknor, l.f. 3b., Cahill or Shanahan Dudley, c. c., Phelan Page or MacHale, p. p., Hebert or Nekola...
Largely responsible for the increasing difficulty of differentiating automobiles has been the Fisher body corporation, which is now engaged in making all General Motors cars look like Cadillacs. Fortunately the powers that be have decreed that the appearance of two new makes comes at a time of the year when the large majority of those interested will have ample leisure to study the situation. The recent additions to the General Motors family will present a problem such as to delight the hearts of conscientious brand spotters, but where are they to fit in the scheme of things? Obviously they overlap...