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What power a crowd has. Power enough to drive me to Swampsecll, or even to Lynn...
...Gamache '27, Madison Sayles '27, and A. C. Lane '27 are playing football and will not be out for fall practice. Although the team will be seriously handicapped by the loss through graduation of Captain Reed, J. H. Watson '26, and C. W. Gilles '26, Captain Merrill Lynn '27 may be expected to lead a successful team. Several competent veterans were on the field yesterday afternoon...
...continued vigor could mean but one thing, with news that the College was heavily subsidized by the I. W. W. and even redder Reds. The patriot, however, was found ignorant of the fact that Commonwealth was founded, with the endorsement of leading Arkansas politicians and others, including Senator Lynn J. Frazier of North Dakota, as a cooperative, "intellectually aristocratic" institution open to all men but specially designed (in cost) for workers, regardless of creed, color, trade, politics...
...less than half his own lifetime helped considerably to change the character of civilization. Last week, at the age of 81, he died of pneumonia, after four years of retirement from business. By 1883, the year Charles Albert Coffin turned from his profitable manufacturing of shoes at Lynn, Mass., to the manufacturing of electrical equipment, electricity was in little practical use. Samuel Finley Breese Morse (1791-1872) had shown in 1844 that it could be used for telegraphy. In 1876 Alexander Graham Bell (1847-1922) applied it to telephony. Charles Francis Brush (1849-) invented the Brush electric arc light...
...Coffin negotiated the merger of his Thomson-Houston Electric Co. of Lynn, Mass., with the Edison General Electric Co. of Schenectady, which J. P. Morgan had casually financed to manufacture power machinery. The new General Electric Co. which absorbed them (and, soon after, several other competitive and related firms) covered their entire field. Mr. Coffin, perspicacious of the industry's future, obtained control; made himself president. He was able to do this because he was in many respects as adroit a financier as Mr. Morgan and because Mr. Morgan never had a flair for young industries. Besides...