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Major U.S. Grant, grandson of the General of the same name, son of Major General Frederick Dent Grant and son-in-law of Elihu Root, is to come into the foreground shortly. On Dec. 31 he succeeds Lieutenant Colonel Clarence O. Sherrill, who is resigning from his post as Director of Public Buildings and Parks of the District of Columbia to become City Manager of Cincinnati. Major Grant, formerly Colonel Sherrill's assistant, becomes his successor...
...Social Ethics 3 Harvard 5 2 P. M. Botany 6b Memorial Hall French A Memorial Hall French I V, VI Memorial Hall WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 3 (XIII) Chemistry B Mr. Church, 5 Harvard 3 Mr. Darling, 2 Harvard 6 Mr. Davis, 1 Harvard 6 Mr. Hussey, 6 Harvard 6 Mr. Root, 3 Harvard 5 Mr. White, 4 Harvard 5 Class. Archaeology 1b Emerson D Comp. Literature 6a Harvard 1 Economics A Mr. Bigelow, M, U New Lect. Hall Mr. Bober, I, N, V New Lect. Hall Mr. Chamberlin, C, F, O New Lect. Hall Mr. Epstein...
...York Times: "What should be a strictly collegiate function has become a gigantic public spectacle, raising the young gentlemen engaged in it to the notoriety of gladiators and matadors. . . . The remedies proposed editorially by the Harvard and Yale dail'es strike at the root of the evil...
...remedies proposed editorially by the editors of the Harvard and Yale deilies strike at the root of the evil. The varsity football season is to be shortened. Instead of beginning with the fall term or before it, and continuing under a squad of coaches through daily prac tice games and weekly intervarsity matches, it is to be preceded by a "class championship" series. Training with the class team for contests of genuine sport will serve at once to put old varsity players in condition and to develop new material. Only when the class championship has been decided will the varsity...
...course aimed at the Freemasons, traditional enemies of Fascism. By way of bugabooing any lingeringly reluctant Senator into voting for the measure, General Zupelli related an extremely tall yarn. Said he: "Freemasonry strikes at the root of military discipline. . . . There was a case during the Tripolitan war in which the Commander in Chief was obliged to remit the punishment of a lieutenant because he was bidden to do so by his aide who, though his inferior in military rank, was his superior in Masonic rank...