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...annual bow in their direction.-For President of the A. B. A. was chosen the noted Alabama banker, Oscar Wells, President of the First National Bank of Birmingham. Born in a lopsided Missouri log cabin, Mr. Wells had tilled the soil, attended an obscure college, and risen from the springboard of his uncle's bank to be first Governor of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Tex. He is rubicund yet determined; his rise has not been too meteoric; he has been heard to say that "launching the Federal Reserve Bank was a task entailing much drudgery...
...parliamentary system, which has no roots in the political nature of the people, is universally distrusted by those who seek reform. The representative assembly has been used by unrecognized politicians as a springboard to project them into the charmed circle of successful ringsters. The policies of the country are dictated by alternating clans, surviving from the old classification of nobles, who use the imperial throne as a shrouding curtain for their intrigues. But the most ominous political portent is not distrust in the obviously transplanted institution of parliament, but the total absence of any temperate party which looks...
...argument : Applied science, the springboard from which society took off for its undisputed "progress" of late centuries, was built in university laboratories by university professors. Witness the following builders with their affiliations, their good works...
Eight events in all were contested and one New England record was broken, that of the potato race which E. H. Clark '96, won in 34 seconds. W. E. Putnam, Jr., '96, in the springboard leap, equalled the Harvard record of 8 ft. 6 in. W. W. Hoyt '98 made 10 ft. 4 1/2 in. in the pole vault and tried to break his record made at Worcester, but failed. Captain Wheelwright of last year's Mott Haven team was a contestant in this event...
Runing high jump, invitation handicap-6 in. limit; parallel bars, broadsword, tumbling, potato race, springboard leaping, fencing, horizontal bar, 10 yards dash, parallel bars (invitation), club swinging...