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...Vagabond knows, three-hundred-and-five feed long, one-hundred-and-thirteen feet wide, and the tower rises one-hundred-and-ninety feet above the Delta, but he is not appalled by that. It was on this Delta that Josiah Quincy paid his sixpence in 1821 to shoot at a turkey, the same stately Josiah Quincy who made the parting senior, having the customary cake and wine at Wadsworth House with his president, feel as though he had drunk "with Prince Metternich at Johannesberg a bottle of his choicest vintage." There on the Delta the Freshmen and Sophomores held their...
...made themselves responsible for the annual deficit. Both died, but last season when popular subscriptions failed to cover the losses, the Taft estate made up this difference. This year people were saying that it was the Emerys' turn and the challenge was taken up by young Mrs. John Josiah Emery, Artist Charles Dana Gibson's daughter who married old Mrs. Mary Emery's nephew. In April when the opera announced that it would have to disband, young Mrs. Emery at once started a campaign for funds, quickly raised the $20,000 necessary to see this season through...
Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, for the summer of 1932, Charles Dexter Scholarships: B. B. Evans, Franklin, Ohio; C. T. Harrison, Cambridge, Mass.; J. A. S. McPeek, Cambridge, Ohio; E. J. Simmons, Lawrence, Mass.; R. McK. Wiles, Truro, N. S., Canada; David Worcester, Boston, Mass., Josiah Dwight Whitney Scholarships: A. B. Cleaves, Providence, R. I.; C. R. Williams, Schen- ectady, N. Y.; R. W. Chapman, Groveton, N. H.; Carlton Thayer Broderick Scholarships: J. H. Moses, Pleasantville, N. Y.; C. J. Roy, Wentworth, Mo.; David Kransdorff, So. Rhodesia, So. Africa...
...Economist John Maynard Keynes broadcasting advice to spend rather than save cut the sale of National Saving Certificates in Great Britain from 250,000 per day to 157,000. In this emergency B. B. C. soon afterward put Sir Josiah Stamp on the air and his stirring appeal? A Thousand Million Saving Certificates! ?boosted sales so much that three days later 450,000 were sold and on the fourth day 500,000?a record...
Married. Trevor Charles Stamp. M.D., second son of Sir Josiah Charles Stamp, economist and director of the Bank of England; and Frances D. Bosworth, cousin of Charles Gates Dawes; in Evanston...