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Pennsylvania walked before them?Senator, Governor and Representative?examining tentatively their gifts, and holding in her hands behind her back the award of the Republican nomination to the Senate. Then, laughingly, she tossed the golden apple to Mr. Vare. All in vain was it that Secretary Mellon had gone back to Pittsburgh, crying: "Pennsylvania never had a more faithful public official nor one who has more clearly earned renomination"?Mr. Pepper polled only 485,000 votes...
...vain was it that Mr. Pinchot rallied' the church forces to his side and called to his coal miner friends?they cast but 320,000 votes for him. Mr. Vare, secure in his control of the Philadelphia machine and failing to gain a majority in most of the rest of the state, yet gathered with the single cry of "Beer" about 90,000 votes more than Mr. Pepper, almost 255,000 votes more than Mr. Pinchot...
...designed the Woolworth Building?" is often asked in vain, for an architect, though eminent, does not come often enough before the public to be remembered. Cass Gilbert designed the Woolworth Building. Last week he came once more before the public by being elected President of the National Academy of Design to succeed Edwin Howland Blashfield, aged painter of murals, who refused reelection...
...accommodations for graduate students which at present is especially serious for those who are married. With over 100 such in several of the graduate departments it is impossible for a large proportion of them to find any suitable place to live in Cambridge. Every fall hundreds of them after vain attempts to locate some lodging place near the University are forced to live in East Somerville, Waverly, or North Cambridge, where they are at great inconvenience in carrying on their studies...
...Harvard" mentioned in your front-page article on Saturday, are revolutionary, if true. If these "researches" have uncovered the "original plan of John Harvard and his fellow pioneers" to found small colleges on the English model, they have discovered something that all historians of Harvard have hitherto sought in vain...