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...Manhattan brokerage house of Weicker & Co. announced it would take a new partner on Jan. 2: Francis Warren Pershing, 24, only son of General John, J. Pershing. His qualifications: a degree from Sheffield Scientific School, 1931 (voted "most likely to succeed"); a year spent selling crushed stone for New York Trap Rock Corp.; several months "connected" with Weicker & Co.; a third share in the $819,000 estate of his late famed grandsire, the venerable Senator Francis Warren of Wyoming...
...gained by waiting. Of the projected ten or possibly eleven Colleges, seven went into operation at once: Branford, Calhoun, Davenport, Johnathan Edwards, Pierson, Saybrook, and Trumbull. Another is going up on the site of Berkeley Oval, and two more will be carved out of the present buildings of the Sheffield Scientific School. With the twenty millions which Edward Stephen Harkness lavished on his Alma Mater, Yale has been able to build five out of the present seven units new, the other two being made out of the Harkness Quadrangle...
...week showed a net gain for Labor of 242 seats-the largest municipal gain in Labor history, though it did not erase Labor's loss of 341 seats two years ago. Cities and towns completely controlled by Labor increased last week from ten to 25, including cutlery-famed Sheffield. Supposing Labor to be definitely resurgent-that is, supposing Great Britain to have a Labor Government within the next two years-who would step into the shoes of un-laborite James Ramsay MacDonald? Recently that brilliant British Press Pundit Henry Wickham Steed dismissed as inconsequential all the Labor leaders "because...
...years as Princeton's white-polled Keene Fitzpatrick, Harvard's "Pooch" Donovan and "Mike" Murphy of Yale, Hill School and Pennsylvania, all track coaches. Never an amateur, Farrell became so famed a professional that U. S. backers sent him to England where he twice won the rich Sheffield Handicap. The Barnum & Bailey circus signed him on for its "Horse v. Man" race, in which he consistently outran the horse. In 1898 he stumbled over a dog, broke his leg, thereafter coached at Yale, Maine and Ohio State, before settling at Michigan. Once able to jump 11 ft. backward...
Nicholas Roberts, graduate of Yale's Sheffield Scientific School in the class of 1901, has done much for his alma mater. In 1918, risen to be vice president of famed S. W. Straus & Co., the bondhouse that advertised "44 Years Without a Loss to Any Investor," he rallied the spirits of Eli with a great party for the Yale football team, "win, lose or draw," in his barn at Montclair, N. J. Nick Roberts' barn party speedily became a famed annual event. To it was added an additional ceremony, the presentation of a bowl to distinguished alumni...