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...cities and Toronto, Montreal and Winnipeg, Canada. All stem from a lunchroom started in 1889 on Manhattan's Cortlandt Street by Brothers Samuel and William Childs with $1,600 capital. Farm boys from Bernardsville. N. J., the Childs Boys, irked by eating in dirty hash-houses, decided to offer the public something cheap and clean. While public clamor for sanitary improvement was building up to the Pure Food & Drugs Act in 1906, Childs restaurants mushroomed, their slogan "The Nation's Host from Coast to Coast," their symbol a pretty girl making wheat-cakes in the window...
Harvard is fortunate in being able to offer as varied a list of extra-curricular activities as could be found in any institution in the country. The space allotted does not permit a detailed description of all the clubs, organizations, and fraternities that are scattered throughout the College and Graduate Schools, but suffice to say that nearly every student can find among the list some group whose interests parallel...
Requiring with athletic managerships the most competitive work are the periodicals, which offer perhaps the best chance for the undergraduate to do creative work. The CRIMSON, Advocate, and Lampoon form the traditional trinity of publications. Others include the Guardian, magazine of the social sciences, and the Monthly, a literary compatriot of the Advocate. Regular competitions are held for election to the boards of all publications...
...Navy, like the British Navy (see p. 16), has some attractions which the Army cannot offer. Scooting back & forth to the Spanish coast on independent duty the U. S. S. Cruiser Raleigh has recently used as its supply base the little French Riviera port of Villefranche, hard by Nice. That seamen of the Raleigh had not overlooked the opportunity thus given them for relieving the tedium of duty was last week indicated when the mayor of Villefranche married four members of the Raleigh crew to four good-natured French girls in one afternoon...
...Germany to give hitherto undefeated Joe Louis a terrible beating, it did not jar Mike Jacobs. Although the logical sequel would have been a match between Schmeling and World Champion Jim Braddock, who was under contract to the Garden, that sequence of events was not considered by Jacobs to offer the maximum profit. There was a rapid flurry of decisions by the New York State Athletic Commission, lawsuits, injunctions, statements, challenges and denials-and presto! the Garden's champion was set to defend his title against Joe Louis in Chicago. The Garden's long control over the heavyweight...