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Dean W. B. Donham '98, of the Business School, administrator of the University's Advertising Awards founded in 1923 by Edward W. Bok, today announced that the jury to make the awards has recently met and made its decisions, which will be announced in January...
Last week in Manhattan, at the home of Mrs. Vincent Astor, met the Board of Directors of the Philharmonic Society.* Chairman Clarence H. Mackay made announcements. He said that Arturo Toscanini had agreed to conduct the Philharmonic Orchestra in a series of concerts next year. He added that Willem Mengelberg, tiny Dutch giant of the baton, had been reengaged for three years; that Wilhelm Furtwäengler, German conductor, will shortly appear in a guest engagement. Toscanini has not been heard in the U. S. since 1920, when he toured the country with his La Scala orchestra, gave a series...
When the Republican Party meets in quadrennial convention, the layman is content to know that, somehow, it has a prescriptive right to nominate a presidential candidate. It has met for this purpose; and the right requires no definition. When the College of Cardinals assembles behind closed doors, the layman knows well what its business is. Last week, the Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America met in Atlanta. One of the reasons for its meeting was to define and redefine its purpose. Follows an attempted definition in the light of history: General History. Since the 1st Century, there...
...talk, conferences, pamphlets, prayers, most of the Evangelical Churches ratified the idea of a Federal Council and voted to become constituent members. In 1908, the Council began, consisting of about 400 members from the 30 churches. It organized itself into committees and committees within committees. In 1912, it met at Chicago and decided to go on. In 1916, it met at St. Louis and decided it was a success. It pointed out that it had not infringed on the autonomous liberty of action of any of the member churches; it rejoiced that it had been effective in giving weight...
Some months ago, when two chemical warriors of the U. S. Chemical Warfare Service-Lieutenant Colonel Edward B. Vedder and Captain Harold P. Sawyer-reported that they had met with great success administering chlorine gas as treatment for respiratory diseases, there was general rejoicing. It was hoped that properly regulated whiffing of pungent, biting, acrid, yellowish fumes of nascent chlorine might one day rid man of all his breathing diseases, from plain "sniffles" on up through asthma and whooping cough to consumption. But such hope was dampened, last week, by a report from Dr. Louis I. Harris of the Health...