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Harvard and Princeton are the two American universities with the largest representation at Oxford and the only two which have established clubs for their graduates there. At the present time the Princeton Club has a membership of 15, while the Harvard Club has a roster of 12, Yale and the University of California some next in the size of their delegations, but neither group is as yet large enough to justify the formation of a club...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HYATT AND NICHOLS HEAD HARVARD CLUB AT OXFORD | 2/5/1927 | See Source »

...most modern features as to swimming pool, gymnasium, class, club and game rooms and other equipment. The district in which it is being erected is thickly populated having an estimated "boy population" of 15,000 within a few blocks. The Boys Club, Tompkins Square Building has an active membership...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WENDELL ROOM GIVEN TO BOYS BY HARVARD CLUB | 2/5/1927 | See Source »

...their "Great White Father." ¶The President asked Congress to appropriate $1,063,000 for the construction of additional helium plants (see p. 10). ¶The President signed the appropriation bill for the Department of Agriculture. ¶The President nominated Lincoln Dixon of Indiana, onetime Democratic Congressman, for membership on the Tariff Commission to replace Henry H. Glassie, Maryland Democrat...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The White House Week: Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

Died. Mrs. Juliette Low, 67, founder of the Girl Scouts of America, in Savannah, after a short illness. Mrs. Low was a close friend of Sir Robert Baden-Powell, founder of the Boy Scouts and Girl Guides of England. In 1912 she brought the idea to this country. Membership now numbers some...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...confused with the Camp Fire Girls, founded by the late Dr. Luther. H. Gulick and Mrs. Gulick ("Timanous" and "Hiltini") at Wohelo (their summer camp), Lake Sebago, Me., also founded in 1912. Membership 170,000. ?He originally owned a seashell souvenir business, then founded the Shell Transport and Trading Co. which later joined its chief rival, The Royal Dutch Oil Co., to form The Royal Dutch-Shell trust...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 31, 1927 | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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