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...selection of the Faculty to act on shipboard is to a large extent different from that of one for a university ashore. On shipboard it is predominately a proposition of living together. The greatest good to the students will come not from the studies or lectures during regular school hours, but from the close association during all hours of the day for eight months with outstanding men of character, culture and personality. There fore, the question of personality and character of the members of the Faculty transcends in importance their exact academic attainments...
...American colleges deserve the greatest praise for their marvelous progress in javelin throwing. The event was not added to the Intercollegiate championship program until 1922, but the present record made by C. H. Storrs of Yale is 199 feet, 1 inch, a mark which compares very favorably with the Olympic record of 215 feet 9 3-4 inches which Jonni Myyra of Finished established...
White Truck Roll Call. Annually the White Co. of Cleveland publishes its "Roll Call" of White truck owners, a veritable roster of the greatest U. S. industrial concerns. This year the roll runs so long-961 fleets including 35,755 trucks-that only the owners of ten or more machines can be listed. About as many owners again remain anonymous, owning only nine or less trucks. The Gulf Refining Co. has the largest White fleet-1929; the Associated Bell Telephone Co. next-1420; the Standard Oil Co. of N. Y. third-1032. This year, as the roll call presented last...
...France, head of the House of Bonaparte, husband of Princess Clémentine of Belgium (daughter of the late King Leopold), scholar, student, connoisseur; at Brussels, Belgium, where his large private fortune enabled him to live in the retired comfort which he loved. He was known as one of the greatest European authorities on the U. S. Constitution. He is "succeeded" by his 12-year-old son, Prince Louis Napoleon Bonaparte, for whom Napoleon Clémentine will act as "regent" until he becomes...
...territory now encompassed by college buildings was made known at University Hall last night. Both sites are the gift of C. Chauncey Stillman '98, of New York, and form an addition to a long series of presentations which have married Mr. Stillman as one of the University's greatest benefactors...