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...first taste of diplomacy and liked it. She founded the American Art Students' Club-now Reid Hall-made a place for herself in the capital's bon ton, no easy feat. Back in the U. S., she shared her husband's political set-back in 1892 when he was defeated for the vice-presidency. Five years later she went with him to England when he was special ambassador to Queen Victoria's Jubilee. Again, when an-other touch of U. S. swank was needed, the Reids were sent to the coronation of Edward...
...best month for Steel Production. The only years in which April did not start with a drop in production were 1928 and 1922. 1931 proved no exception, as last week steel production fell from 57% of capacity to 55%, the first decline of the year. Said Iron Age: "This set-back is not regarded as signifying anything more than exaggerated caution." Steel prices remain firm, highish, but it is well known that naming a price and doing business at it are not the same thing in the steel industry...
...seen fewer attempts to learn it all and more attempts to learn only a part. . . . Society of the future will be one of greater and greater change . . . morality will have no place . . . right & wrong will give way to social expediency. . . . The units of organization will be larger . . . despite the set-back occasioned by the Treaty of Versailles. . . . Democracy will not be so successfully applicable. ... A declining population is altogether a possibility. . . . There has often been discussion of how far the birth rate will fall . . . the answer is that the production of babies, like the production of potatoes, will be governed...
...directing the Army forces, but even his stellar work did not suffice to keep the Crimson from pushing over a last minute touchdown to win its sixth consecutive victory by 6 to 0 count. It was during this series of games that the West Point combination received its worst set-back, that in 1899 when Harvard piled up a total of 29 points to its opponent's 0. During this stretch, too, the aspiring generals succeeded in making their only score prior to last year's game when they sent over a touchdown...
With the exception of a severe set-back at the hands of a strong Prince ton eleven, the Engineers have had a reasonably good record. The first two encounters went to Lehigh by 14 to 7 scores, with both St. John's College and the Pennsylvania Military College on the short end of the count. A fairly powerful Gettysburg combination next eked out a 7 to 0 win. Then came the Orange and Black debacle, but last Saturday there were marked signs of a Lehigh resorgimento when the team from Bethlehem triumphed over Muhienberg...