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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...right direction. A faculty advisory board might be persuaded to offer its services for coaching, assisting in deciding winners, and generally playing wet nurse to the organization; and the minor outside debates to be held before local groups in Cambridge and Boston should foster the interest of many hitherto kept out of the picture. Better distribution of prize money is also a magnet of potential drawing power...
...forces. With Ringling Bros, and Barnum & Bailey still in Florida winter quarters last week, this tradition was shattered when Cole Bros.-Clyde Beatty moved into the Hippodrome, became the first important tent show in a generation to challenge "The Greatest Show on Earth" not only by playing New York, hitherto practically a Ringling monopoly, but playing it before Ringling got there, and playing it under a "permanent top" (a building as distinguished from a tent...
Into the news next blazed Mrs. Pauline Mae Clarke, hitherto a quiet competitor. Her trouble last week was with one of the men who have given her valuable assistance in the race-Mr. Harold H. Madill whom the Canadian press last week was calling "Mr. X." When Husband Clarke quit after siring only four children, Mr. Madill unselfishly stepped in to sire five more. By last week Mrs. Clarke's confidence in this second collaborator had somewhat waned, and after obtaining a court order to eject Mr. X from her house she was trying out a third...
...Dean Diederichs, with the nearest thing to date to a direction for his money's use: "I shall be glad to have it applied to the endowment fund of the College of Engineering, if you think that will be the most helpful place." President Farrand agreed that the hitherto unendowed College of Engineering should keep the check as a start. Said he: "I must ask the press to express the thanks of the University. .. ." President Farrand declined to tell on what banks L. H. Anon's checks had been drawn...
Last week'"Ding" Darling was a tired but happy man. Year ago, at a North American Wildlife Conference in Washington, nature-lovers and gunners who had hitherto spent their energies fighting each other agreed to get together and fight for wildlife. Sinking their crotchets in a temporary General Wildlife Federation, they chose "Ding" for temporary president. Then they went home to enlist women's clubs, garden clubs, camera clubs, Audubon societies and sportsmen's associations in State Federations. To the second North American conference in St. Louis last week went 800 representatives of 46 State Federations with...