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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Chase of Milton was voted Vice-President by a decisive number of points over his nearest rival, Moses Williams Jr. Chase entered the University from Exeter. He was center on last year's championship University team and also played on his Freshman ice squad. Last year he won a letter in baseball as a substitute infielder. In his Freshman year, he was on the hockey team, the baseball squad, the Jubilee Committee, and was a dormitory football manager...
Captain W. P. Ellison '27 led the list of letter men who reported at yesterday's meeting. Among these was Willard Howard '27, a letter man two years ago who did not play last year because of an injury sustained in baseball. The members of last year's undefeated Freshman sextet and several stars who were ineligible last season swell the total of first-class material from which Coach Bigelow will mould the team to face a hard schedule...
...William Williams Keen, surgeon-educator, of Philadelphia: "Irritated by stupid campaigns against vaccination, I wrote last week a letter to the New York Times, in which I said: 'In the U. S. for the seven years from 1919 to 1925 there were 409,639 cases of smallpox. Even granting that the percentage of deaths was very small, there were at least 350,000 or even more cases in which the victims were made repulsive for life by the pitting of their faces and handicapped in both their business and social relations. In addition to this a very considerable number...
...contend with his fondness for people to get his work done. His love and respect for his children was immense. A keen sportsman in youth, he could hardly bear to dissect pigeons later. The favorite game of his gentle, invalid age is referred to in a letter: "Now the tally with my wife in backgammon stands thus: she, poor creature, has won only 2,490 games while I have won, hurrah, hurrah, 2.795 games!" A pious country Woman, on hearing that he would go to hell for his beliefs, replied: "God Almighty can't afford to do without...
...Guthrie further cited a letter written by Mr. Taft to Assemblyman L. A. Cuvillier of New York protesting against the use of remarks made by him in opposition to the Eighteenth Amendment, because it gave the impression that he had made them since becoming chief justice...