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...information about Oxford and the Scholarships: Eliot House, Professor Matthiessen, who as Secretary will have office hours on Mondays and Wednesday; Adams House, J. A. Ross; Dunster House, Assistant Professor E. S. Mason; Kirkland House, W. P. Maddox; Leverett House, Associate Professor W. C. Greene '11; Lowell House, Mason Hammond '25; Winthrop House, D. B. Durand...
...went to Europe, won a million dollars at Monte Carlo and saw the Folies Bergere. The first Ziegfeld Follies appeared in 1907-08. Critic Percy Hammond called it "a loud & leering orgy of indelicacy & suggestiveness." Subsequent Follies helped to make Ziegfeld a millionaire, "glorified" a succession of beautiful women,* including Justine Johnstone, Olive Thomas, Marilyn Miller (he called hers "the most beautiful form in the world"), Yvonne Taylor ("she wore the most beautiful tights"), Mae Murray, Lilyan Tashman, Ina Claire, Billie Dove, Mary Hay, Nita Naldi, Marion Davies, Peggy Hopkins Joyce. He was responsible for the fame of Will Rogers...
Last week 86 eminent persons including Edsel Ford, John Hays Hammond, William Green, Howard Earle Coffin, August Heckscher, Clark Howell, Henry Stevens, Edward F. Hutton, William Vincent Griffin, Jesse Isidor Straus and Elon Huntington Hooker petitioned President Hoover to revive the Council of National Defense. They argued that a dictatorship was the way out of Depression. President Hoover promptly rejected their request. He felt that the C. 0. N. D. was only an advisory war body and that the Cabinet, Federal Reserve Board, Farm Board and Reconstruction Finance Corp. were now "the most effective economic council that could be devised...
...Mason Hammond '25, head tutor of Lowell House, urges all present members of the House to meet their Freshman friends in the student common room at 6.45 o'clock, to escort them to dinner, and to act as hosts...
...Hammond and Westgate rowed together at Baliol College, England, and all members of the crew have had considerable previous experience in the art of rowing, several having rowed in England. It is notable that three men on the crew are advanced students of the classics...