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...local Barlett High School ball team. Interviewed recently, as she sat huddled on the bench with her male associates, Nellie asserted she was "taking a business course. I'd like to play ball, but what are you going to do about a thing like that." Even if some philanthropist obligingly offers to pay her expenses through college, she insists it be Harvard or Yale plus a chance to try out for the team...
...went to Columbia and she to nearby Barnard. Father Ochs smiled on the match, imposed only one stipulation: whoever became his son-in-law must also work on the Times. Willingly Arthur quit the silk business at which he had worked for his father, Cyrus L. Sulzberger. From his philanthropist father, Arthur had acquired a big urge for civic responsibility, and family pride in the fact that his great-great-grandfather was Lieut. Benjamin Mendes Seixas of the American Colonial Army...
Died. Sir Albert Edward Gooderham, 73, Canadian distiller-philanthropist (Gooderham & Worts); of a streptococcus infection; in Toronto. During the War his firm produced for the British Government 75% of all the acetone (used in cordite) made in the Empire...
...employed who will devote their entire time to giving medical advice and attention to students. If competency replaces incompetency, careful diagnosis replaces careless and indifferent examination, and thoroughness replaces haste, a great deal will be accomplished. Perhaps, then, replacement of Stillman Infirmary can await the day when some philanthropist may see fit to provide Harvard with new facilities for caring for the sick. But some drastic reform and reorganization must take place now and University Hall should undertake some investigation of the prevailing menace. It is not a request but an earnest plea on behalf of students who depend...
Characteristically, Counsel Hogan opened his case by presenting Mr. Mellon as a greathearted, cruelly persecuted philanthropist and patriot. Climaxing a long recital of his client's good works, he announced that Mr. Mellon had long intended to build a great public museum in Washington to house his $19,000,000 collection of art treasures (see p. 32). Throbbed Lawyer Hogan: "God Almighty did not create a man who could at the same time and with the same heart be giving such a great gift to humanity and, on the other hand, be scheming to steal from his Government...