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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...official opening of the fall rowing will start several days later, with a format meeting in the Smith Hall's Common Room. The Freshman crew aspirants will probably be called out a week later when the full list of University coaches will probably be announced...
Joseph Lifrak '29, a player on the scrubs, was added to the growing list of injured, when he suffered a twisted ankle. Others on the injured list include J. H. Gildea '31, J. A. Prior '29, Guy Murchie '29, S. C. Burns '30, and David Guarnaccia '29. The latter pair will probable return to active service this afternoon, while the others are out of play for varying terms up to one week...
...headquarters with the explanation that Hooverism was not officially responsible for anything Mrs. Willebrandt might say. Senator Borah, one of Hooverism's biggest voices, was invited to address a Methodist gathering at Peoria, Ill. He declined. Mrs. Willebrandt's name was left off Hooverism's official list of campaign speeches for the near future and it was stated that the next Willebrandt speech would not be distributed from official headquarters...
Tucked away in the alphabetical list of directors in agate type was the name, John D. Rockefeller III. Ignorant of one of the pet Rockefeller philanthropies, a superficial observer might wonder why a Rockefeller, a Herbert Lee Pratt (Standard Oil), a Henry Elliott Cooper (Equitable Trust Co.). should be interested in a comparatively puny bank whose capital was announced as $500,000, whose declared purpose was to serve Harlem's Negroes...
...significance of Rockefeller Jr.'s choice of the Dunbar National Bank is in the long list of gifts which he has made toward the betterment of Negroes. Tuskegee, Hampton and Fiske have been given many a million; the Spelman Seminary, Negro girls' school in Atlanta, Ga., another beneficiary, gives a leading clue to Rockefeller Jr.'s largess. Rockefeller Jr.'s maternal grandmother was an eager opponent of slavery, helped form a link in the underground railway which slipped escaping slaves to freedom. Rockefeller Jr.'s mother was Laura C. Spelman; in honor of the Spelman...