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...last week it had news too good to keep. President Roosevelt had consented to come up. accept an LL. D. He will be the ninth actual or future U. S. President to receive Yale's kudos. George Washington got his degree while in office, by letter. William McKinley. also in office, accepted by telegram. William Howard Taft was a Federal judge when he was honored in 1893. President Theodore Roosevelt and Professor Woodrow Wilson of Princeton got their degrees at the same commencement, in 1901. Last to be kudized was U. S. Food Administrator Herbert Hoover...
Thomas Jefferson Coolidge 3rd's great-great-great-grandfather was the President from Monticello. His grandmother was a Randolph of Virginia; his grandfather was a president of the Santa Fe Railroad and, later, McKinley's Ambassador to France. His father was the founder and president of Boston's Old Colony Trust Co. In 1914, playing left-end for Harvard in the opening game in the Yale Bowl, young Coolidge scooped up a Yale fumble, almost on Harvard's goal line, and ran 98 yards for a touchdown. A year later Harvard graduated him, Phi Beta Kappa...
Negroes in Congress Sirs: TIME, April 2 : "Best known Negro in Congress is Representative Oscar De Priest of Illinois. Best-liked Negro at the Capitol is Harry Parker, messenger of the Ways & Means Committee since William McKinley was its chairman 45 years ago." The above statement is true. Harry Parker has been a good, honest and smiling servant for is 45 to years...
...more ornate than a cathedral altar, the monstrous gimcrack every hour tells the time in 27 different cities, plays a pipe organ, sings, talks. At the hour of Lincoln's funeral it intones the Gettysburg address. For the memory of President Garfield it plays "Gates Ajar," for President McKinley "Lead Kindly Light." An incidental ornament is a toy electric train...
Best known Negro in Congress is Representative Oscar De Priest of Illinois. Best-liked Negro at the Capitol is Harry Parker, messenger of the Ways & Means Committee since William McKinley was its chairman 45 years ago. Last week Representative De Priest and Messenger Parker found themselves on opposite sides of a warm Congressional controversy involving their race's relations with whites...