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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Widener Library has held for some years the title of the foremost college library and the fifth greatest in the world. As in inevitable in an restitution most of whose growth has taken place within a comparatively few years, omissions occurred and the gift from the family of the late William Auguastha White '63, as announced elsewhere in today's CRIMSON, will fill one of the most serious of these...
...gold. Perhaps you retain some of the old prejudice against Standard Oil, and so rate him down to 16¼ carats or $14.00 per oz., which would bring his pounds to just about your figure of $204.09 each, but one is inclined to consider his vast benefactions and his late judgment of Col. Stewart, and give him the full 24 carat rating of 1000 fine...
...place, a 4,160-acre estate, belonged to the late Henry Clay Pierce, oilman, business adventurer in Mexico, millionaire. It was tendered to the President by Clay A. Pierce of Manhattan, a son. Clay A. Pierce had never met President Coolidge. The Pierce heirs are anxious to sell the place. The Coolidge occupancy, brought about by onetime (1918-27) Senator Irvine Luther Lenroot, of Wisconsin, will probably not lower the obtainable price...
...late Mr. Pierce fancied troutfishing so keenly that he had the produce of his fish-hatcheries and nurseries graded by size and put into 17 pools or "holes" in the Brule River flowing north through his property. Wire screens which bob up into place again after a boat passes over them, separate the pools. Brush and windfalls are so dense along the river's banks that fishing is impossible except from a boat. A onetime employe of the late Mr. Pierce says the Brule trout used to be so thick and tame (from hand-feeding) that you could take...
Delegate Otis F. Glenn of Illinois, the stocky, drawling lawyer who prosecuted the murderers at Bloody Herrin, was watched for as the man slated to place Candidate Lowden in nomination. Delegate (Mrs.) Ruth Hanna McCormick, daughter of the late famed G. 0. Politician Mark Hanna, said she had accepted the honor of seconding Delegate Glenn's motion. Other notable daughters were to be present-Mrs. Leona Knight of Providence, R. I., to cast at least one vote for her father, Candidate Curtis of Kansas; Sarah Schuyler Butler, daughter of President Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia University...