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...eight years of his Speakership (1911-19) Champ Clark took the floor 18 times for regular debate and 45 times when the House was in the Committee of the Whole on the State of the Union. His speeches produced much applause with members rising to their feet. Joseph Gurney Cannon (1903-11) spoke four times on the floor, six times in committee and four times (irregularly) from the chair. Thomas Brackett Reed (1889-91; 1895-99) spoke, according to the records, only "two or three times" from the floor whereas Charles Frederick Crisp (1891-95) spoke...
With the Duke of Connaught, Uncle of King George of England, presiding, the Pilgrim Society of London held a luncheon yesterday in honor of George Lyman Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature. The Pilgrim Society recently gave a similar luncheon in honor of Andrew Mellon, American Ambassador to the Court of St. James...
...Anthony 1G.B., carsman on the University crew at Yale for three years, will act as coach for the Eliot House Boat Club this spring, it was learned yesterday. R. B. Merriman '96, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science, has invited members of the club to meet Anthony at the Master's lodgings on Monday evening...
...Merriman '97, Gurney Professor of History and Master of the House, has lent a set of old English sporting prints which will be hung on the walls of the cafeteria this week...
...Kittredge '82, Gurney Professor of English Literature, will be the guest of honor at the Leverett House dinner tonight. He will speak after dinner in the Students' Common Room on "Pedants." H. C. Kittredge '12, Master of St. Pauls School, Concord, New Hampshire, will also be present at the dinner...