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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...accounting, which is one of the rarest and earliest of business books, has been donated to the Business Historical Society, it was announced yesterday. This book, the "Summa de Arithmetica" by Fra Lucas Pacioli, was published in Venice in 1494. The volume is regarded as one of the greatest prizes a business library can possess...
...moved. Paul Revere Frothingham was the descendent from generations of Harvard men who moulded her fortunes in the days when she was a New England and Boston institution, that is, the days of Emerson. Lowell, and their contemporaries. He was the most brilliant successor of William Ellery Channing, the greatest minister of his time, whose religious doctrines exercised untold influence at Cambridge during the same period. His heritage was the heritage of liberalism...
...ends the first few minutes of what must be the greatest hour in legal history. In this trial the Corrugated Press is doing well by the boys. Jimmie Goof is handling this in his old way. And within three days we hope to have the All-American Sex picked for this year...
...Chicago opera connoisseurs have more immediate glories at which to point with pride. Fortnight ago (TIME, Nov. 22) the Civic Opera embarked upon a season of splendor-probably its greatest. Marie, Queen of Rumania, came the opening night to see Aïda. If Samuel Insull, sitting beside Her Majesty in the first box, had been a man of many words, he might have told her of the rising fame of Chicago opera, of such artists as Edith Mason, Mary Garden, Rosa Raisa, Cyrena Van Gordon, Charles Marshall, Tito Schipa. It is true that Chicago has no Rosa Ponselle...
Under the watchful eye of Coach Danguy, the University fencing squad is working out daily in preparation for a hard schedule. The whole of last year's foils team was lost by graduation, and lack of experience is liable to prove the greatest handicap to the development of the squad. The swordsmen upon whom Coach Danguy is counting to form the nucleus of his team are Captain R. P. Outer bridge '28, A. C. Lane '27, J. F. Davidson '27, M. R. Berliner '28, and G. H. Umbsen '29, who was captain of last year's Freshman duellers...