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...Harvard man such mathematics make very little appeal. One cannot fall to read between the lines that Harvard determination is worth far more than three points. A prominent Boston sports writer, more ingenious in the perilous art of doping, given two columns of figures, one for the optimist, the other for the conservative. The first reads eighty points for Harvard, the second fifty-eight and a third. The chances of error here are slight: some-where within these limits, lies the actual victory, as well as the possibilities which tomorrow afternoon will draw hundreds of Crimson and Blue supporters...
...late Chauncey Mitchell Depew, orator, optimist, railroad lawyer, left an estate valued between $5,000,000 and $15,000,000. To Yale University he gave...
Secondly, Mr. Edgell is an optimist. Into the bad side of American architecture he does not enter--not at least when he can help it. He admits in his preface that there is plenty of poor building in America, as in all countries, but maintains, and it would seem, rightly, that no particular purpose is served in exhibiting the family unmentionables. Where there is so much beauty, why seek out the ugly spots...
Later than it does to most men, Death came last week to Chauncey Mitchell Depew, after-dinner orator, optimist, railroad lawyer, spectator of U. S. national affairs since the Mexican War, aged 94 years less three weeks. A bronchial infection, picked up after a winter in Florida, turned into pneumonia in Manhattan. Two bishops and a Fifth Avenue rector officiated at the funeral service. Thousands of dignitaries attended or despatched their respects...
Charles Michael Schwab (chairman of the board of Bethlehem Steel Corp.) arrived in Manhattan on the Aquitania, having completed his 77th crossing of the Atlantic. After the usual "I am always an optimist in regard to American business," he said that he wears button shoes because he can get somebody to button them for him; that he always patronizes the same tailor because that tailor wears exactly his size clothing. Mr. Schwab will return to England in April to receive the Bessemer medal* from the British Industrial and Steel Institute. Will H. Hays, famed deus ex machina...