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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Divorced. Percy L. Crosby of Manhattan, cartoonist (Skippy), art editor of Life; by Mrs. Gertrude V. Crosby, on the ground of extreme cruelty ("vile and obscene" language, flirtations). The Crosbys were married in 1917, have a seven-year-old daughter...
...workingmen, author (Food for the Fed-Up, The Warrior, The Woman and the Christ), rector of St. Edmund's, London; of influenza; in Liverpool. "Woodbine Willie" personally gave away 8,750,000 Woodbine cigarets to soldiers. As one of 15 Court Chaplains he preached to King George V at Buckingham Palace. He slept there, and under hedges with tramps. Visiting the U. S. often, he delivered his tirades against social conditions. The most famed "Woodbine Willie" stories tells of his interruption of an English wire-cutting party near German trenches on a murky night...
Class of 1929: G. A. Chenoweth, Percival Dove, Jr., S. H. Frederick, H. R. Hunkins, M. H. Mackusick, Jr., P. E. Nokes, F. V. Ryer, A. G. Salminen, and G. A. Sawin...
Class of 1931: W. F. Billings, R. G. Haworth, R. C. Hooper, J. J. Jessel, C. M. Shigley, F. V. Weeks and Herber Wells...
...discussed by outstanding figures of the scholastic and professional worlds. Professor C. F. Taeusch of the Graduate School of Business Administration opened the morning meeting at 10.30 o'clock in Agassiz Houser Radcliffe College, with a critical analysis of "Ethics and Business." He was followed by A. V. Shaw, senior partner of Shaw, Loomis, and Sayles, who was informative and helpful on "The Teacher's Personal Investment Problem...