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Then there was a raid on the Transvaal properties by foreign gold interests out to beat the Dutch control, led by Sir Leander S. Jameson, the administrator of Rhodesia, associate of Rhodes in this and other enterprises. As the biggest foreign mine-owner in the Transvaal, Rhodes was implicated. As Premier of the neighboring colony, he was deeply embarrassed, some said disgraced. With fine candor he accepted his responsibility for what had happened, resigned his office, set off for Rhodesia, an undeveloped portion of Africa up country, where he labored before his health broke and he went back to Cape...
...plan for the Dictionary originated two years ago in the Council of Learned Societies. A committee under Dr. John F. Jameson of the Carnegie Institution (Washington, D.C.) laid out the work, suggesting the British Dictionary as a model and recommending that all articles be the fruit of fresh work by specially qualified writers. It was "hoped and believed" that the work would "stand upon a unique level of authority, scholarship and literary quality...
...Adie '26, B. H. Burnham '24, B. McK. Henry '24, A. L. Hobson '24, J. R. Hoover '24, J. L. Jameson '24, S. R. Johnson '25, S. B. Kelley '25, Robert Winthrop '26, F. T. Baldwin '24, manager...
Name and ClassAge Ht. Wt. B. S. B. Kelley '25 21 5.11 161 2. J. R. Hoover '24 21 6.00 178 3. B. McK. Henry '24 21 6.01 185 4. J. W. Adie '26 19 6.00 177 5. G. R. Johnson '25 20 6.03 186 6. J. O. Jameson '24 20 6.02 187 7. A. L. Hobson Jr. '24 22 6.02 186 S. Robert Winthrop '26 20 6.02 184 Average 20 6.01 180 C. B. H. Burnham...
Hoover's rise in the past few weeks has been as sudden as either Jameson's or Johnson's. He was dropped with the third University crew just prior to the departure of the first squad for Philadelphia for practice on the Schuylkill river during the spring recess. Thereafter he rowed on the Senior Class Crew. When the decision was made to incorporate, the Sophomore A crew into a second University crew to row in the American Henley Regatta at Philadelphia, Hoover with Johnson was advanced to the second crew. He retained his position when the crews went...