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Died. Mrs. Roberta Marez, 135, "oldest woman in the U. S.;" at Segundo...
Died. Miss Caryl Frohman, oldest sister of Daniel Frohman, theatrical producer; in Manhattan...
...Oldest observers of football history recall no record to compare with the consistent captaincy of Walter Kop-pisch. For the third year in succession he was elected captain of the Columbia University eleven. Next year Koppisch will complete his fourth season on the Columbia varsity owing to his entrance in college before the passage of a three- year-rule. He is also a notable figure in intercollegiate track, holding (with others) the world's record of 49 3/5 seconds for the quarter-mile (indoor...
...There is a Cercle Francais,--some know of it, some profit by it, and some work at it. The Cercle deserves a much better kind of attention than this sort of perfunctory sympathy that it receives. As a matter of fact it is one of the oldest organizations in the University, as may have been noticed by the celebration of its fiftieth anniversary...
Died. Kate Terry (Mrs. Arthur Lewis), 79, oldest living member of the famous Terry family of actors and actresses, in London. She made her first stage appearance in 1847 at the age of three, singing I'm Ninety- Five and dancing the Jockey Dance. Her last appearance was in 1906, at Drury Lane in a jubilee testimonial to Ellen; she was Ursula in Much Ado About Nothing...