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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...William Harris, the funds having dwindled so that it was no longer possible to assign the income to a full professorship. About 1842 the income of a newly established professorship, endowed by Joshua Fisher 1766, became available, and to this new chair Dr. Asa Gray was invited. The most recent change came in 1923, when Assistant Professor S. F. Hamblin was made director...
...pugilist, planned his trip to the U. S. as a business venture. He felt that he ought to make money in a country where the biggest man who ever held the heavyweight championship (Jess Willard) was only 6 ft. 6 in. high and weighed but 250 lb.; where a recent contender (Victorio Campolo), called sensationally big. weighed only 225 lb. and was only 6 ft. 6½ in. high. Fighter Camera is 6 ft. 11½ in. high and weighs 280 lb. with nothing on. His shoes are size 21½ and weigh 7½ lb. apiece. His collars...
...Carena, little known in the U. S., is an officially recognized painter in Italy, an instructor in Florence's Academia di Belle Arte. He was born in Turin in 1880 and studied largely by himself. His painting has traversed the usual "periods," Romantic, Classic, Modern. The Studio, though recent, gives little hint of his later manner. First prize at Carnegie is $1,500. But this year a special prize of $2,000 was donated by Albert Carl Lehman, Pittsburgh steel man, for the best purchasable painting. Painter Carena also won this prize, and his picture was bought by Donor...
...recent decision of the faculty of the Phillips Exeter Academy to allow all men in school regardless of their scholastic standing to compete in athletics with rival institutions seems on the surface ill-considered. It has long been the custom of most of the leading colleges and preparatory schools to make athletes too the mark academically, and to all intents and purposes the effects of these regulations have been entirely beneficial. Athletes have been forced to realize that the primary purpose of a higher education is not to play football...
...either got to be a first-rate actor and know your business, or else have tremendous personal charm," said Noel Coward, the young English actor playwright composer, whose most recent production. "Bitter-Sweet" is playing a two weeks engagement at the Tremont Theatre in Boston...