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...play in the Eastern grass-court tournaments, to be included among the first ten in U. S. ranking and be selected for the Davis Cup is the ambition of every young man whose tennis game is good enough to win a State or district championship. This week at the toney Seabright Lawn Tennis & Cricket Club on the Jersey coast, the cream of the current crop of Davis Cup hopefuls, more enthusiastic than ever because there is no titan like Donald Budge to tower over them this year, will match strokes in the first of the four major grass-court tournaments...
...hopped Premier George Kiosseivanoff, of Bulgaria. This Balkan statesman had just visited Berlin, where he had passed through flag-lined streets, been put up at sumptuous Bellevue Castle and been feasted by Fuhrer Hitler at the Chancellery. At Bled, a Yugoslav summer resort, M. Kiosseivanoff had a reception less toney, but just as friendly. High point of his stop-over was a visit to Castle Brno, where he chatted long and amiably with the polished, cultured Prince Paul, First Regent of Yugoslavia...
...yesterday the following appointments were made: Edward Channing, Ph. D. and Albert Bushnell Hart, Ph. D., assistant professors of history for five years, from Sept. 1, 1887; William Hopkins Tillinghast, A. B., assistant librarian and editor of the quinquennial catalogue; William Coolidge Lane, A. B., assistant librarian; Henry W. Toney, Francis J. Child, Charles Eliot Norton, Crawford H. Foy and George D. Goodale re-appointed, and Charles T. Dunbar, members of the council of the library for three years, from Jan. 1, 1888. William Gray, Henry J. Bigelow and Henry Lee were elected trustees of the Museum of Fine Arts...