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...Carl D. Groat, United Press news director in Manhattan, saw the despatch. As hardbitten newsmen often do, he simultaneously winced at the private tragedy and snapped at the human interest story. He ordered United Press men to hunt for a supply of cortical extract among the physicians of their community. Roscoe Snipes, U. P. bureau manager at Buffalo, recalled Professor Hartman's paper before the chemists, persuaded him through a reporter?after Dr. Torpin had sent a personal request from Chicago?to send a supply...
...Some Groat Prime Ministers: Walpole, the two Pols, Peel, Disraeli and Gladstone." Professor Munro, New Lecture Hall, Government...
...presenting "Tiger Rose" as its offering this week, the St. James has undertaken to do a very difficult thing. Two groat factors in the success of this play in New York were that Lenore Uirich was cast to perfection as the French Canadian girl, and that David Belasco, in his scenery and scenic effects, had left nothing to the imagination. Take away the charm of Lenore Uirich's acting and the perfection of the stage settings, and you are hard put to it to find a substitute. If the theatre-goer is sensible enough not to expect...
...Yale eleven has an advantage of twelve pounds to the man over the Crimson, averaging 186 pounds to the University's 174 pounds. In the line the difference in weight is not so groat; Yale tips the scales at 194 and Harvard at 191, while from tackle to tackle the discrepancy is only 199 to 193 pounds. The Harvard ends alone of the divisions of the team outweigh the Eli wing 188 to 181. Both backfields are comparatively light, Yale weighing 172 and Harvard 167 pounds...
...recent sale of the library of G. W. Wales in Boston the library committee of the Union secured 159 volumes, many of which are handsome and valuable. These include the works of Burke, Cowper, R. H. Dana, Geffrey, Raleigh, Christopher North, Jefferson and Stirling Maxwell, also Mahon's England, Groat's Greece, Nichols' Literary Anecdotes and many other standard works. The committee were enabled to make these purchases by several special gifts for the purpose,--$200 from W. Phillips '00, $40 contributed by undergraduates through R. Derby '03, and $25 given in memory of J. S. Tebbetts '80. The books...