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From South Africa, via Copenhagen, via the Royal Astronomical Society of London, came the news that a new comet has been discovered by a Mr. Reid at the Royal Observatory of the Cape of Good Hope. Last week it was 123 degrees from the North Pole of the heavens, and 44 degrees to the right of the "first point of Aries" (the Greenwich Observatory of the celestial universe). But it is moving northward at the rate of 30 minutes (half a degree) a day, and to the east by 53 minutes a day. The magnitude of the comet...
...urge to consolidate, ever uppermost in the heart of Frank A. Munsey, led to another journalistic union-but not under Mr. Munsey's banner. Without a word of warning, without the usual preliminary tremors of. rumor, it was announced that Ogden M. Reid, owner of the New York Tribune had bought The New York Herald (Mr. Munsey's property since 1920) and that they would be combined on the follow-ing morning. The Paris edition of the Herald was also sold to Mr. Reid...
...Tribune, under Horace Greeley and Whitelaw Reid, has had in its 83 years of life a lasting effect upon the destinies of the nation...
...consolidation under Mr. Reid was really brought about by his refusal to sell his own paper. He and Mr. Munsey each wanted to buy the other's paper. But Mr. Reid refused, absolutely, to sell, because the Tribune was his father's paper and he was determined to keep it as a family tradition. So Mr. Munsey yielded...
Coach Herbert named Thomas, Nunneker, Skilling, Norris, and Crane as the most reliable attack men, with Reid, Sullivan; Salter, and Watson for probable defense stars. The appearance this week of I. G. Black '24, Samson Merriam '25, J. L. Rudofsky '24, R. C. Morrison '26, D. H. Stevens '24, and T. W. Hoag '25 is expected to alter considerably the tentative line...