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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...regulation affecting the managership of the Polo team announced yesterday by manager F. H. Gade '31 states that hereafter the office of Polo manager must be held by a man, in his Junior year. This ruling was made, due to the fact that former managers have found difficulty in attending to both their studies and managerial duties...
...been announced that managers of the polo team are to be chosen in future from candidates of the Junior class, since it has been found that seniors are generally too busy, with divisional examinations in prospect, to afford as much time to managerial duties as is desirable. It is pointed out also that under the new system the manager in office will be in a position always to receive valuable aid and advice from an experienced predecessor who will be on hand to help him. These appear to be the chief reasons advanced to explain this innovation in managerial policy...
...other side of a picture of decreasing college interest in non-academic activities is unveiled in the statements accompanying Dean Pound's disapproval of engagement in such interests by students of the Law School, where membership in a single extra-curricular organization is found to impede scholastic work dangerously. The undergraduate, doubtless endowed with more leisure than his elder brethren, prefers to devote himself to Widener and his classes; the graduate, in an atmosphere already charged with academic responsibility, drops from grace through the endeavor to add a number not already on his crowded program...
John North Willys, automobileman, has an estate near Oyster Bay, Long Island. On the estate is a private beach. On the beach was found floating last week the body of a dead man. On the man was only underwear. His clothes, discovered later on the Willys beach, contained the following memo: "Sunday-Took a trip to Oyster Bay. The afternoon is sunny and cheerful. Sorry I did not bring my bathing suit, as I find quite a few bathing and enjoying it." The ill-fated intruder on Mr. Willys' private beach was identified as R. A. Richard, Manhattan salesman...
...wealth as a maker of Turkish cigarets, kept a glamorous fondness for his birthplace. The town was Magnesia, squalid, dusty, smelly town in Asia Minor, about two hours railroad ride from Smyrna. In his will, opened last week, he gave a fifth of his $5,000,000 fortune, to found and maintain a hospital for Magnesia's poor of all creeds. He also willed much money to Jewish, Protestant and Catholic institutions...