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...Herman Royden Sweet, Austin teaching fellow in Botany; Llewellyn Thomas Evans, Austin teaching fellow in Zoology; Robert Emerson Todd, Jr., Austin teaching fellow in Zoology; Harold Hooker Lane, assistant in Astronomy; Sidney McCuskey, assistant in Astronomy; Newton Earle Chute, assistant in Geology; Charles Harry Burgess '31, assistant in Geology...
Elected. Sir Percy Elly Bates, G.B.E., 50; to be Cunard Steamship Co.'s board chairman, succeeding Sir Thomas Royden, retired...
...them. The field was covered with mist through which, except in front of the stand, nothing could be seen very clearly. In the boxes sat a few notables, not many, for the Grand National is not a smart race but just a dangerous and famous one. Sir Thomas Royden of the Cunard line was there. He had ordered the liner Scythia into dock at Liverpool so that people who wanted to see the race could sleep on board. The King of Afghanistan had spent the night as his guest and was now sitting with Queen Thuraya in the Earl...
Even after she had so soundly rebuked the pettiness of one criticism and removed the basis for the other, Agnes Maude Royden was not reinvited to speak in Chicago or Boston, where the women felt that "Miss Royden . . . stood for certain principles which our organization did not care to sponsor ... it might do harm to our youth.'' Detroit women characterized the criticism of Miss Royden as "absurd," but in Philadelphia, after reading the reports of her arrival, women's clubs retracted their invitations. Some women spoke sharply of "Hoyden Royden"; others, baffled by her direct and vigorous speech, took refuge...
...Haven, Conn., Agnes Maude Royden committed a few witticisms directed, in large part, not at her U. S. detractors but at the inhabitants of England. She said: "It is as easy for an Englishman to say something nice as it is for him to have a tooth pulled. ... In America, candidates 'run' for office, in England they 'stand.' . . . For my part, I pledge myself to return to England and to try to interpret the vast enterprises of your great empire, for that is what you are building up, in the certain belief that a genuine understanding can be built...