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...Fair days in Jackson Park and house within it a museum of industrial progress. Mr. Shedd's increased aquarium gift came forth promptly when he learned that two millions would not pay for a plant planned by architects to be the greatest ichthyological edifice-from a scientific standpoint-in the world. The U. S. has, or is to have: the Golden Gate Park Aquarium (San Francisco), $200,000; the St. Louis Aquarium, $1,500,000; the New York Aquarium, antiquated but visited by millions annually (and now being re-stuccoed) after years of supremacy...
...knows that not one of the peeresses proposed for admission would be nominated by any competent tribunal to any legislative body at all. . . . Some of these ladies were made peeresses because otherwise there was no prospect of a male heir. Many of them have proved disappointing even from that standpoint. . . . The entire method of constituting the House of Lords ought to be changed, and when that is done women ought to be selected from the whole population of the country...
...From the standpoint of multi-millionaire publishers, not only newspapers but editors are sometimes regarded as commodities that occasionally change hands. Last week Cyrus Hermann Kotzschmar Curtis, secured a new editor for his Manhattan paper, the New York Evening Post. The man whom Mr. Curtis secured is Julian Mason, who violates all newspaper tradition by being an exceedingly well dressed man, the best dressed editor in the country.* But Mr. Mason is not simply a natty dresser. He brought the Chicago Evening Post to a high rank among the newspapers of that city, was then called to Manhattan to become...
...trips ashore it has seemed wise to establish the policy that students may not take side trips apart from the entire party. The value of these trips will be enhanced by the personal contacts that are made and the places that may be visited from an educational standpoint under the guidance of representatives of the foreign governments or of the local university or other educational organizations...
...truer perspective on their own lives and the country to which they will return. The difference is more one of attitude rather than places visited, as the students will probably see as many of the "sights" as on any other trip, he will see them from an educational standpoint and under most favorable auspices...