Word: illness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Virginia has been more hurt by the withholding of legitimate news than by its free publication. Several examples of this have recently occurred. If only good news is published the reading public will have scant respect for its value. All the news should come out, whether for good or ill. The very fact that it is going to be printed will increase efforts to prevent the happening of things that are more to our injury than credit. And this is especially true of continuing conditions, brought out by studies of the institution itself, its structure, its traditions, its policies...
...attended. The service of last year will be long remembered. His experience of war made him an eloquent advocate of peace. His own self-sacrifice, with his high patriotism, pointed his appeal for our national participation in the solution of world problems. On the following morning, he was too ill to take his turn at the Chapel. He was to have preached here again on the 29th of May, 1929, so that the service just mentioned was the last at which his voice was heard...
...Guggenheim Fund safe aircraft competition will be derided next October. A dozen airplane manufacturers are enlisted in it already. U. S. entrants are Curtiss Aeroplane & Motor Co. of Buffalo, Schroeder-Wentworth Associates of Glencoe, Ill., Charles Ward Hall Inc. of Buffalo, J. S. McDonnell Jr. & Associates of Milwaukee, Heraclio Alfaro of Cleveland, and Brunner-Winkle Aircraft Corp. of Brooklyn. If they do not win the $100,000 first prize, they may get one of five $10,000 "safety" prizes...
...Fine Arts. To the University of Chicago will go a "first lady" as young for her position as her husband is for his. She, born in Bay Shore, L. I., will succeed Mrs. Frederic Campbell Woodward, wife of Chicago's now Acting-President, who was born in Evanston, Ill. Still in her twenties, Mrs. Hutchins will have as much need as her husband to "ignore her youth" Not only must she be the first lady of a University, but the first lady "culturally" of a City which, perhaps faster than any other in the world, is gyrating toward cultural...
...secret chest which may be locked at the bottom of the sea for all anyone knows about it. Like it or not the Corporation will sometime have to explain this hoarding of a growing fund, and wisdom should dictate that they do so before the chances for misinterpretation and ill-will become any more numerous than they are at present...