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Divorced. Sir Charles Henry Augustus Frederick Lockhart Ross, 66, inventor of the Ross rifle and one of the largest landowners in the British Empire; from his second wife, U. S.-born Patricia Ellison; in St. Petersburg, Fla. Grounds: desertion. The Ross divorce case has languished in British, U. S. and Mexican courts since 1924. In 1928 Lady Ross finally got a divorce in Edinburgh, only to have it canceled next year by the House of Lords...
Every state in the Union is represented among the 8,825 students from the United States. Massachusetts, with 2,927 students, has the largest representation, followed by New York, with 1437; Pennsylvania, with 424; Ohio, 326; New Jersey, 310; Illinois, 276; California, 260; and Connecticut...
...grant from the Carnegie Corporation of New York was the largest donation of the year; first in three annual grants of this amount for the coordination of the libraries of the University...
Should the contract be accepted, the waitresses, largest single class of workers affected, will receive $18 a week, Christmas and Easter vacations at full pay. They now get $14 with vacations at half...
...without erecting an entirely new infirmary) we should well consider that Stillman is supposed to be an infirmary and not a large and modern hospital equipped for the treatment of all sorts of rare sicknesses. Although I have no statistics at hand, I am sure that by far the largest number of students entering Stillman are suffering from minor sicknesses such as colds, bronchitis, grippe, stomach disorders and lack of rest and sleep, which can be easily and well cured in this Infirmary. Why is it not sufficient to treat more serious cases in one of the big hospitals...