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Russia. Even today some 30,000 of these "Knights" maintain themselves by agricultural labor in Bulgaria & Jugoslavia (TIME, Dec. 27, 1926); and stand ready, as a functioning, militant unit to render fealty to the Russian whom they recognize as "Tsar"-the Grand Duke Nicholai Nicholaievich, who resides in prudent retirement near Paris (TIME, April...
Niagara Electricity. Deriving profits from electricity generated at Niagara Falls are Buffalo, Niagara & Eastern Power Corp., Buffalo General Electric Corp., Niagara Falls Power Co., Tonawanda Power Co., Niagara, Lockport & Ontario Co., and their subsidiaries-whose directors last week agreed to combine as one operating unit...
...less civilized unit than the continent of Europe, has isolated districts in which urbanity and good manners are important. Manhattan is one such; it has a Ritz. Boston and Philadelphia-these two have been given a Ritz. Atlantic City is flashy, yet is permitted a Ritz. Last week it became known that one other city in the U. S. would achieve this monumental seal on its civic success. There was some doubt, however, which city this would be, that would outclass Berlin and cast shame on Tokyo. It might be Chicago. It might more probably be Los Angeles...
Construction on the pool unit will be begun sometime during the summer in accordance with the conditions of two two gifts amounting to $350,000, made this winter by anonymous donors. It is expected that the pool will be ready for use by next winter, in which case Harvard may have its first swimming team during the 1928-29 season...
...such a union must be admitted as the really hopeful direction for the dreaded mass education to take. Business developments have sufficiently demonstrated the advantages of the branch system. It universities can have the strong trunk of efficient administration and authoritative lecturers, and still diversity their branches with unit colleges of different types, such as Yale promises and Columbia provides, the fear of Ford factory scholasticism may well be forgotten...