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...ruddy, stalwart Sir Francis Edward Younghusband, 66, of Westerham, Kent, native of India, veteran army officer and diplomatist, treaty-maker with Tibet (1904)*, committee head of the expedition to climb unconquered Mount Everest. In Manhattan he was guest of honor at a "Tea Conference" of The Threefold Movement, of which he is London committee chairman. He told his hosts why no attempt has recently been made to scale the world's highest peak. Said he: "The Tibetans believe that their gods have been offended and are angry and so have requested us not to apply at present for leave...
...Ohio Superior Court Judge (1887-90), Solicitor General of the U. S. (1890-92), U. S. Circuit Judge (1892-1900), first Civil Governor of the Philippines (1901-04). Roosevelt's Secretary of War (1904-08), 27th President of the U. S. (1909-13), defeated Republican nominee for President (1912), Kent professor of law at Yale (1913-21). Chief Justice (1921-30). His judicial tendency: toward a cheerful conservatism, trying to keep-up-with-the times without violating tradition. Outstanding decisions: none. Reason for resigning: 111 health (bladder; a breakdown following his brother's funeral in December...
Sixth in the series of public lectures, given on Sunday afternoons at the Harvard Medical School, is the talk on "Mouth Health" to be given by Dr. H. A. Kent, instructor in oral surgery at the Harvard Medical School. The lecture will start promptly at 4 o'clock...
...Kent emphasizes the importance of education to health as follows: "Physicians and dentists are teaching their patients the value of observing the various common rules of hygiene sanitation, personal cleanliness and proper diet and yet there are some who have not fully appreciated that an unclean mouth is a most prolific source of danger to the health of the individual, or that a disregard for the principles of correct living often expresses itself in the teeth or their supporting structures by causing either or both to break down...
Crew T--C. W. Dreyfus '31, stroke; E. W. Robinson '32, 7; J. M. Barnum '30, 6; Rockwell Kent '32, 5; F. G. Shaw '31, 4; R. M. Kellogg '32, 3; A. F. Borts '32, 2; bow, Dudley Davis...