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...Review has the acknowledgeed reputation of being one of the leading law periodicals in the world. It can also claim the distinction of being the oldest student legal publication, for it was founded in 1887 by a small group of men who had previously been associated as a club...
Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., is that State's oldest educational institute. Last week it celebrated its 44th anniversary...
...Empire. Oldest railroad Empire (founded in 1827) is the Baltimore & Ohio, with Daniel Willard its Emperor and Baltimore its capital. The B. & O. runs west from Baltimore to Cumberland, then stretches a long northern arm off to Chicago and a long southern arm off to St. Louis. It has also short but vital trackage between Washington, Baltimore and Philadelphia. Through West Virginia, southwestern Pennsylvania and Ohio, the B. & O. map shows many little criss-cross branches. West of Cincinnati and Toledo, however, its main lines stretch out in lonely isolation and in the critical region between Philadelphia and New York...
Registration for all men intending to compete for the University's third oldest award, the Boylston and Lee Wade Public Speaking Prizes, will close on Monday afternoon at 5 o'clock in Holden Chapel. All Seniors, Juniors, and Sophomores in good standing are eligible. The only requirement is that memorized selections, about five minutes in length, from some standard piece of literature, must be approved by Professor F. C. Packard...
...contest receives $50, which is the Lee Wade prize proper. It was established in 1915 by Dr. Francis Henry Wade, in memory of his son whose name the prize bears, and who had participated while in college in the Boylston contest. This latter is one of the oldest in the University. The speeches next April will mark the one hundred and eleventh consecutive year of its existence. The Boylston prizes, one of $50 and two of $30 each, which constitute the second, third, and fourth awards of the present combined competition were founded in 1817 by Ward Nicholas Boylston...