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...surrounded by Amherstians. Last Saturday I thought to profit by my error. I entered through a different gate, selected a very different seat position. This time I confidently inform my neighbors that Harvard is my hope, whereupon said neighbors commence to bellow out: "B-R-O-W-N." I felt a long ways from home. If ever, dear reader, you witness a football match in Australia, don't "barrack" (cheer) for Balmain among the Newtonites. You may never see the Statue of Liberty again...
...facts straight, it is up to Kraft to prove that its discounts are justified by savings on the larger orders, or that cheese competition has not been affected by its discounts. On virtually the same grounds the Commission also issued a complaint against Shefford Cheese Co. of Syracuse, N...
Died. Herbert Schussler Billerbeck (Herb Williams), 52, plaintive oldtime comedian; of pneumonia; in Freeport, N. Y. For 25 years in his standard act he sported sickly yellow button-shoes on the wrong feet, yanked ham sandwiches, beer, a cat from his piano, broke baseball bats over the heads of heckling bandsmen...
Died. Prince Alfonso Carlos Fernando José Juan Pío de Borbón y Austria-Este, 87, since 1931 the eccentric Carlist pretender to the non-existent Spanish throne, who led 14,000 troops in the last Carlist fight (1873-76) against the legitimate Bourbon monarchy; of injuries received when struck by an automobile; in Vienna. To run his shabby Vienna palace he kept a single uniformed doorman, adopted a Negro girl...
Small Hobart College (enrollment: 334) at Geneva, N. Y. is famed for its all-time record of 27 straight football defeats (1928-31), as the purported birthplace of the drinking song Solomon Levi* as a modestly endowed, progressive liberal arts institution with more graduates in Who's Who than any school of its size. Founded by an Episcopal bishop in 1822, Hobart has had 14 presidents, all Episcopal clergymen. Its "coordinate" college for women, William Smith, has shared the last three. Last week these educational twins formally installed a new president, neither clergyman nor alumnus but a Dartmouth English...