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...university until the time of the war. With the increased cost of living, however, these established benefactions meet but 70 per cent, of the expenses, and the other 30 per cent, is gained through fees and through a grant from the Government. The newer universities, like Manchester, Liverpool, and Leeds, are supported by voluntary contributions and by local levies...
Charles E. Raven, Canon residentiary of Liverpool Cathedral and sometime Dean of Emmanuel College of Cambridge University, will deliver the William Belden Noble Lectures at the University this year, it was announced last night. The series of six lectures, which are given annually, will begin this year, in all probability, before December 1, and be completed before the Christmas holidays. The general subject of the six addresses has been decided on by Canon Raven as, "The Spirit of God--Creative and Indwelling...
...London last week from Sandringham. Edward, speeding in a luxurious first class saloon car, knew not that Arthur J. ("Emperor") Cook, famed "red hot" Communist Secretary of the Coal Miners Federation, was riding a few cars behind, in a third class carriage. As the train drew in to Liverpool Street Station, Mr. Cook, facetious, bowed elaborately from his third class window as a cheer echoed for Edward of Wales. Queried "Emperor" Cook of scandalized newsgatherers: "Is this respect for the Prince or for the 'Emperor...
...century ago the hamlet of Birkenhead boasted some 50 inhabitants, rustics who scratched their polls in wonder at the great steamers plying to Liverpool, just across the River Mersey. Last week scholars of the Birkenhead School, all conscious that their potent industrial city now numbers over 100,000 souls, welcomed a sleek gentleman who once conned his three R's at Birkenhead School under the name of Freddy Smith. "My advice to you . . ." said the sleek gentleman while his auditors squirmed appreciatively, "My advice to you is to meet success, when it comes to you, like a gentleman...
...They knew too that last year's average cotton price was 24.8c a pound, that present prices average less than 18c a pound at U. S. cotton markets (Manhattan, New Orleans, Galveston, Mobile, Savannah, Norfolk, Augusta, Memphis, Houston, Little Rock, Dallas, Montgomery, Ft. Worth), that at Liverpool, to which Europe looks, prices are little higher. Then, too, ecto-blasts of monopoly bounders fluttered over the aborning Institute. The manufacturers felt obligated to make a gesture toward the growers. They invited them to Institute membership...