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Divisional vice-presidents that were elected are as follows: J. S. Higgins '07, of Providence, Rhode Island for New England; R. T. Wheeler '05 of Buffalo, New York, for the eastern section; Louis Chauvenet '07 of Eastmont, Virginia, for the south central section; A. L. Cox '07 of Raleigh, North Carolina for the southern section; H. L. Gaddis '12 of Cleveland, Ohio for the central section; Phillip Little, Jr. '08 of Minneapolis, Minnesota for the west central section; J. D. Bowersock '92 of Kansas City, Missouri for the southwest central section; W. W. Fisher '04 of Dallas, Texas...
Because Josephus Daniels, genial publisher of the Raleigh (N. C.) News & Observer, was Secretary of the U. S. Navy when that navy bombarded Veracruz in 1914, loud have been the Mexican murmurings against his appointment as Ambassador to Mexico. The murmurings were so loud last week that Foreign Minister Jose Manuel Puig Casauranc felt called upon to deny officially that the appointment of Publisher Daniels was in any way displeasing to the Mexican Government...
South. At Raleigh, N. C., the Southern Conference championship was really settled in the semi-finals of the tournament. Five South Carolina sophomores, four of whom played together at Athens, Tex. High School, led by a tall clever forward named Benny Tompkins and his left-handed high-scoring brother Freddy, ran up a lead of 15 to 6, then loafed until North Carolina caught up and passed them, 18 to 15 at half time. 'South Carolina, completely upset, failed to score for 20 minutes; then scored six points to tie in the last four minutes, won the game...
Three years ago Governor Oliver Max Gardner gave North Carolina the "live-at-home" movement. Last week the North Carolina Press Association gave Governor Gardner a "live-at-home" dinner at the State College at Raleigh. Except for salt, pepper, sugar and coffee the menu was entirely North Carolinian: shrimps from Southport, clams from Wilmington, turkeys from Durham, sausages from Kinston, mushrooms from Charlotte, onions from Wilson, corn (pone) meal from Maxton, milk from Pinehurst, walnuts from Madison County, pecans from Lumberton. Lucky Strikes from Reidsville, Chesterfields from Durham. Among the favors were knitted underwear from Winston-Salem, homespun suits...
They were a people of violent contrasts, of sudden and unpremeditated changes, who welcomed paradox with open arms and accepted the contradiction of life on its own terms. Sir Walter Raleigh could violate his own word, giving a whole town to slaughter, and yet celebrate the power of death in a peroration of romantic fervor. Marston was a satirist of brutal and unscrupulous force, who saw the inside of a London jail before retiring to the ruminative dullness of a provincial pastorage. The dramatist who celebrated a ruinous love in Egypt could see only fraud and treachery in the heroes...