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Publicized into overemphasis, U. S. college football has long been a subject of concern to wise-headed educators. Last year Columbia's President Nicholas ("Miraculous") Murray Butler urged that rich alumni endow football so that football could forget gate-receipts. Said he: "Perhaps what is needed is an academic League of Nations. . . . Until something of this sort is done Columbia must remain one of those colleges which pays the penalty." (TIME, Jan. 5, 1931). Few other university officials agreed with President Butler, but at the University of Pennsylvania President Thomas Sovereign Gates last autumn inaugurated a system...
Hailed as an economy, the new Yale policy is an enormous luxury. Yale box-office power will not entirely vanish, but fewer games, probably less effective teams will decrease the gate receipts. Endowments will have to be found to support athletics. Thus Yale indirectly will follow Columbia's Butler's advice...
...around talking literature and eating roast pig (porcellus). Its reputation springs from the wealth and social swank of its membership which has included Holmeses, Lowells, Belmonts, Adamses, Roosevelts, Bonapartes, Carrolls, Lodges. Its club house on Massachusets Avenue overlooks the Yard. Porcellian's favorite beverage was Golden Gate, a concoction of equal parts of gin and beer. At club dinners all members must be primed to sing solo...
Small, weak but exceedingly loud bombs were hurled at the Bank of Japan, the Mitsubishi Bank, the residence of Emperor Hirohito's Grand Chamberlain Admiral Kantaro Suzuki, the Central Police Station opposite the Cherry Village Gate of the Imperial Palace. At the gate a Japanese reporter fell with a bullet in his foot. Other bombs were thrown at the residence of Count Nobuaki Makino, Lord Keeper of the Privy Seal and a con stant adviser to young Emperor Hirohito...
While some Californians have resented Herbert Fleishhacker's close friendship with Governor James ("Sunny Jim") Rolph Jr., longtime Mayor of San Francisco, the connection enabled Mr. Fleishhacker to be appointed to the Board of Park Commissioners in 1920. He gave Golden Gate Park its famed open-air Fleishhacker Pool and donated a large zoo to the city. Favorite of his beasts there is a lion called "Herb," not for him but his powerfully-built son Herbert Jr., onetime Stanford football hero, formerly an employe of J. P. Morgan & Co. and now with Guaranty Trust. San Franciscans know that...