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President James Rowland Angell of Yale University: "The elaborateness of modern college endowment activities was suggested by news last week that one afternoon this month, before I address a 'master dinner' of Yale alumni in Manhattan at the official opening of Yale's latest $20,000,000 campaign, I am to address by radio all Yale alumni in the U. S. and also Europe. A 32.79-metre wave, it is expected, will make my plea for money heard by Yale men, idle and diligent alike, in London, Paris, Berlin, Venice, Cairo...
...fields; but your list of those otherwise famed is so inadequate that I'm having the audacity to name a few- Rabelais, Agassiz, Schiller, Keats, Goldsmith, Steinmetz, John Locke, Mungo Park, Sir Auckland Geddes, S. Weir Mitchell, Joseph Hergesheimer, A. S. M. Hutchinson, W. Somerset Maugham, Henry C. Rowland and now Warwick Deeping. The enumeration might be continued, but these will suffice. THOMAS H. MERKLE...
...speaker at the dedicatory exercises to be held at 4.30 o'clock on Wednesday, at the site of the tablet, will be President James Rowland Angell, at Yale, who will also be the guest of honor at the annual Yale Club of Boston banquet at the University Club...
Died. David Rowland Francis, 76, onetime (1889-93) Governor of Missouri, later (1896-97) Secretary of the Interior, and (1916-18) Ambassador to Russia; in St. Louis, after long illness. He was in Russia when Tsar Nicholas II was deposed. Through him, the U. S. recognized the Kerensky republic. He suffered from Bolsheviki attacks when the U. S. refused to recognize the revolution which placed the present Russian government in power...
...other sources, however, that President Coolidge and King George did not converse. Publisher Ochs of the New York Times let it be known that he was first private speaker, with Editor Geoffrey Dawson of the London Times. Mayor Walker of New York said he talked to Lord Mayor Sir Rowland Blades of London. There was little enough secrecy about the service, at that According to the London Daily Mail clever radio engineers, amateur and professional, were able to listen in upon the talks as far away as South Africa. Complete privacy is being striven for by engineers. . . . Mr. Gifford...