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Birthdays. Rudyard Kipling, 66; Alfred Emanuel Smith, 58; Rudolph Spreckel, 60; Robert Joseph Cuddihy, 69; all race horses (Jan. 1).
The Author, Alfred Edgar Coppard, 54, reached 40 before he started writing. Ill-health took him from school at nine, and like Kipling's Dingo Yellow Dog chased him to such good purpose that he became a professional sprinter. He left a clerk's job in 1919 when he decided...
Selections from Thackeray, Kipling, O. Henry and Leacock will feature the thirty-second reading of Charles Townsend Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, Emeritus, tonight in the Upstairs Common Room of the Freshman Union at 8 o'clock. Professor Copeland, who has given a Christmas reading at the...
Elected. General Jan Christian Smuts, to be rector of the University of St. Andrews, Scotland, defeating Scottish-born banking & shipping Tycoon James Lyle Mackay, Earl of Inchcape, 466-286. The rectorship, honorary post which may be held in absentia, has been graced since 1919 by Sir James Matthew Barrie, Rudyard...
The disorder was initiated without doubt by a militant minority of the right, whose lead was followed by listeners in search of diversion, who with true Gallic wit took pleasure in causing discomfiture to over serious and self-important pacifists. Yet it is also a sign of the overbearing attitude...