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This is all very true and concisely expressed. Both Lord Rothermere and Lord Beaverbrook are distinctly inferior journalists to the late Lord Northcliffe. Lord Rothermere was always identified with the financial arrangements of the Northcliffe Press. At the time Lord Northcliffe, then Alfred Charles William Harmsworth, started his first newspaper venture (Answers), Lord Rothermere, then Harold Harmsworth, was in the Civil Service. He was accounted a brilliant mathematician and his advent to his brother's firm may safely be said to have laid the cornerstone of the Northcliffe fortune. Northcliff e had the journalistic gift and lacked, not business...
...with the fairness and sincerity promised, should serve to disillusion the British of many of their misunderstandings in regard to "these United States". It is in line with several recent steps in England, among them the appointment of Doctor S. E. Morison of the University to the newly-founded Harmsworth Chair of American History at Oxford...
...Samuel Eliot Morison '07, lecturer on history at the University, has been granted leave of absence from his duties for two years beginning next summer, to enable him to accept the Alfred Vyvyan Harmsworth professorship of American history at Oxford, to which he was recently elected. The Harmsworth chair was founded not long ago by Lord Rothermere, brother of Lord Northcliffe...
...Crane is the designer of Dixie IV, which last year defended the Harmsworth cup for the fastest motor-boat in the world under 40 feet in length. The distinctive feature of the new shell is its stern, which will be square, instead of being drawn out to a fine point as in previous boats. The new shell embodies some of the lessons Mr. Crane learned in designing hydroplanes. Although it is square, it is so built that it will drag the least possible water astern. The fact that it is seven feet shorter than previous boats will materially lessen...