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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clock--Senior class Chapel Service, conducted by C. N. Greenough '98, in Appleton Chapel...
...exercises this year will be held during the week of June 16-21 resident Lowell, who has preached the Baccalaureate Sermon for the last 19 years, has consented to do so again. The Senior Class Chapel Service on the morning of Class Day will be conducted by C. N. Greenough '98. J. E. Barrett '30 has been appointed by the Class Day Committee as Head Class Day Usher for the Juniors and will also officiate as Head Usher for the Senior Spread on June 17. Other appointments will be announced at a later date...
Elected. Lewis H. Brown, 35, of Pelham, N. Y., assistant to the president of Johns-Manville Corp.; to be president, succeeding the late Theodore Frelinghuysen Merseles...
Died. Jacob ("Jake") Volk, 56, of Brooklyn, N. Y., potent razer, Russian-born butcher's son; of pneumonia; in Brooklyn. Razer Volk began with a horse and wagon; ended with a swift demolishing squad. He razed more than 2,500 buildings, including Delmonico's famed restaurant and the homes of Vanderbilts. He cleared the ground for the Woolworth Building, Equitable Building, N. Y. Cotton Exchange, Bankers Trust Co. When he razed the 13-story Chemical National Bank in downtown Manhattan he displayed a sign: "JACOB VOLK-THE MOST DESTRUCTIVE FORCE IN WALL STREET." His fondest dream...
Died. Major General Daniel Appleton, 77. of North Andover, Mass., retired publisher (D. Appleton & Co. of Manhattan was founded by his grandfather Daniel Appleton in 1825); at a sanatorium in White Plains, N. Y., where he had been ill for four years...