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When Dr. John Alexander Mackay was inducted as president of the Princeton University Theological Seminary, the oldest theological school of the Presbyterian church in the U. S., the procession of famed educators that attended arrived greatly disheveled and windblown...
...Eject that man", directed Senator James Mackay above the roar of hisses as he ended the Child Labor Amendment hearing at the State House yesterday. Kenneth Taylor of the Federation of Labor beat three constables to the door and to the picket line on the Common, ringing down the curtain on one of the best shows of the winter. Since the rule for these occasions is that one Harvard Professor is worth four press-agents, the presence of President-emeritus Lowell and John Raymond Walsh practically guaranteed a page one story. What could not be seen at the start...
...squash tennis, squash tennis with court tennis, court tennis with lawn tennis. Always recondite pastime, racquets has traversed the social gamut more completely than any other game. It started in London debtors' prisons, where no other form exercise was practical, in the 18th Century. A prison alumnus, Robert Mackay was the first recognized world's champion in 1820. In 1822, Harrow schoolboys took up the game. In 1853, when London Prince's Club built a racquets court, racquets became exclusively a pastime of patricians. Racquets' rise in the world was accompanied by no spread in popularity...
...sprinters include in their numbers Captain John Colony, and the Dons Mackay and Barker. They are all strong swimmers, and will probably divide first laurels throughout the season. Together with Hutter, they will form an unusually fast relay team...
...concerts John D. Rockefeller Jr. and his daughter Abby sat on camp chairs and listened. Afterwards Mr. Rockefeller offered to help pay the expenses, paid for two concerts in 1919, for the four January concerts every year since. Rich Manhattanites like Clarence Mackay, Mr. and Mrs. George Blumenthal, Frederic A. Juilliard, the late Charles W. Gould paid for four concerts every March...