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Last July, in a matter of fact sort of way, Walter P. Chrysler offered the public a new automobile called the Plymouth. On the thirtieth day of that month, Dodge Bros, stockholders approved a $160,000,000 deal which turned over their business to the Chrysler Corp. The Dodge company included Graham Bros., big truck concern...
...said: "The biggest game stays in the deep forest." The reference was to Mr. Chrysler's relative obscurity from the public eye during the years when he was the greatest doctor of sick automobile companies that the industry had ever known. Sweet are the uses of that sort of obscurity. All his life Chrysler has managed to make himself thoroughly well known in quarters where it would do him the most good...
This lecture, sponsored by the Medical School and the State Board of Health, will cover colds, pneumonia, and venereal diseases. Bishop Lawrence has long been interested in social problems of this sort and during the war he worked in conjunction with the late President Charles William Eliot '53, of Harvard, on the control of venereal disease. At that time he was President of the Massachusetts Society of Social Hygiene. Although now retired, he is still active in adapting his own war work to times of peace...
...wonder why this damp and draughty meeting-place of wintry winds and rains was ever chosen for the seat of a university. While Oxford cannot boast of the yellow, strangling fogs which infest London and turn her days into hideous night, she can offer a specimen of a sort no less disagreeable to newcomers. For a few hours at least during these quiet winter days, a thick white layer is apt to fill the bowl which the Isis and the Cherwell have made between Cumnor, Boars' Hill, and Shot-over. The dome of the Radcliffe Camera, the spires and towers...
...week. Three days later, David O. Meeker, medical student, also of Rochester, appeared at the Omaha, Neb., airport and hired a plane to take him to San Francisco. Word got around that Mr. Meeker was chasing Miss McConnell; the press played up the affair as if it were some sort of Derby. Miss McConnell won, arriving in San Francisco a day ahead of Mr. Meeker. It developed that Miss McConnell had been in a nervous condition and that Mr. Meeker, a friend of her family, wanted to make sure that nothing happened...