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...Franco-Spanish frontier, eagerly questioned travelers from Spain declared: "Weyler is after Primo's scalp again." They meant, of course, General Don Valeriano Weyler y Nicolau, Marquis of Teneriffe and Duke of Rubi. He had, it was reported, lent the weight of his notorious influence to a band of his henchmen, who counted on marching from Barcelona to Madrid and Power-even as Dictator Primo made exactly that same "march à la Mussolini" (TIME, Sept. 24, 1923). The active leaders of the revolt were 18 generals and a round dozen of Liberal and Communist politicians. General Aguilera, onetime Minister...
...first crew looked better Saturday, than it has for a long time. Holding the Navy crew to a three-and-a-half length margin was a lent performed by no other crew this season, and at the same time Captain Winthrop's eight took ample revenge on M.I.T. for its defeat the week before. The Cornell crew, the surprise of Saturday's regatta, did a good job and forced the Crimson boat to the finish. Harvard as usual rowed a long slow stroke, and locked like a four-mile crew, an encouraging sign with only the Yale race ahead...
...Loan Library, consisting of books necessary in the Law School, from which volumes are lent to men working their way through the School, has been increased this year by a large number of donations from graduating students...
Letters to the Harvard Fund Council, which have, in many cases, accompanied contributions, indicate a gratifying approval of the plan of the fund. A case in which distance has lent, perhaps something besides enchantment, is that of a distinguished Siamese contributor, whose letter is also quoted on another page. If the Fund's appeal can effectively reach a man so far removed from the life and flavor of Cambridge, it will not be lost on those who are geographically closer...
...from Robert Herrick and Sol B. Joel, from Charles Beecher Warren and John J. McCarty. The list has almost no end, composed as it is of men in all walks of life?ambassadors, financiers, politicians, scientists, admirals, artists. And the names of most of these men are not merely lent as they might be to a worthy charity; they are men in whose lives he has played a part: Hadley at whose Alma Mater he got his education, Hearst whose father gave him his first job, Joel whose uncle (Barney Barnato) took him to South Africa, Sir Lionel Phillips...