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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...article in the Alumni Bulletin Mr. Hindmarsh shows how the cost of going to college has risen in the last thirty years and how the amount of money given out In scholarships and other aids has also gone up. He makes no mention of the fact that extra money has been received this year to take care of scholarship men in the houses. There are approximately 220 upperclassmen who will live in the House Plan who are scholarship holders. An extra sum of money which will take care of the average increase in room rent has been received and this...
Your issue of April 20 gives a thumbnail sketch of the life of Nick Longworth and credits him with having attended Harvard and "conducting the college orchestra,'' but fails to mention the fact that he graduated from the College of Law, University of Cincinnati...
Sirs: In reading your pellucid stories of Japanese state problems, particularly of those in connection with the shooting by ambitious, 23-year-old Tameo Sagoya of Premier Hamaguchi in a Tokyo railway station (TIME, Nov. 24), I do not recall any mention of the recent exorcising ceremonies performed there (in the station) by Buddhist high priests. Reports Graphic, Manila, P. I. weekly, for March 4: "This station was a hoodoo, a place tabooed by the superstitious residents of Tokyo. The rite was performed for the purpose of driving away the evil spirits. . . . "When the railway station was nearing completion...
Sirs: Your mention of Buck Duke (Duke's Mixture, Duke Power Co., Duke University) in TIME, April 27, brings to mind an incident frequently quoted in this section. A new Methodist minister in Durham met his Church's famous benefactor for the first time. Asked he. "Are you the Buck Duke who belongs to -he First Methodist Church?" Answered Buck, "No, I'm the Buck Duke the First Methodist Church belongs to." BERTRAM H. BROWN...
...General Pershing's headquarters were aboard his train at Souilly. More than 1,000,000 U. S. soldiers took part in this engagement, captured 26,000 prisoners, suffered 117,000 casualties. To the infantry, to the air service, to the medical corps went Pershing praise. Singled out for special mention were the "Lost Battalion," Lieut. Samuel Woodfill and Sergeant Alvin C. York who captured 132 prisoners...