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...Jefferson added porticos. The trouble here is one of scale as well as of style. However, so far, there is nothing royalty goal at to end of the Yard except the new President's house, built by Mr. Lowell. This house is well matched in its manner with the oldest buildings and yet has plenty of charm and a character...
...This proposal has come spontaneously from Harvard alumni. In itself it is evidence of the character of education at this oldest of all American universities. Evidently the spiritual has its place there and a true appreciation of the meaning of heroic sacrifice. Harvard raises no bars against non-Christian attendance; its chapel attaches to no particular creed; but it knows the value of religious influence encouraged by the university itself, on the campus and having some place in students daily life. It is regrettable that our state universities have been deprived of the opportunity Harvard seeks (to grasp more richly...
...President gravely shook the gnarled hand of Henry B. Hallowell, venerable marine. He had presented 'letters from President Harding and Brig. Gen. Smedley Darlington Butler of the Marine Corps attesting that he is the oldest living "devil...
...advertising business it was a big event when last week the firm of Lord & Thomas (Chicago, Manhattan, Los Angeles, San Francisco and London) merged with that of Thomas F. Logan Inc. (Manhattan) to form the firm of Lord & Thomas and Logan. It was a wedding of one of the oldest members of the Fifth Estate with one of the youngest; of the popularizer of many famed household commodities with the interpreter of many huge public service and transportation corporations. It was the formation of one of the largest advertising concerns in the world* and the coalition of two perfect representatives...
Last week it was announced that Mr. Curtis had called him to become editor-in-chief of the New York Evening Post-the oldest and the smallest (in, circulation) newspaper of the Metropolis. Doubtless the salary is appropriate to the post-a post which has been filled by such famed editors as Alexander Hamilton, William Cullen Bryant, I Carl Schurz, E. L. Godkin, Horace White, Rollo Ogden. Said Editor-elect Mason: "I believe the property [newspaper] has an assured future...