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...After serving as lieutenant in the U. S. Navy, he became a member of the University alumni council, later a University trustee. In February 1929 "Ned" Doheny, 36, was shot by his mad secretary, Robert Plunkett, who then killed himself. A great Doheny friend was Warren Bradley Bo vard, 47, comptroller and vice president of U. S. C., son of its President Emeritus. In December 1930, Comptroller Bovard killed himself, left a note: "Goodbye, Blanie [his wife], I am going to look...
...some extent Dr. Butler is a prophet greater outside his own country than in it. Certainly he has not acquired the position of national wiseman occupied by Har vard's late great Charles William Eliot. Although often held up as a horrible ex ample of mass-production-educator, he is better appreciated by the superior few who recognize the quality of his own ideas than by the democratic many for whom he spreads out a quantity of learning. But whether he is judged by the institution he created or by the friends he has made, it could be said...
...Buckeye Comet, who also had turned in a time one-tenth of a second faster than Tolan's. When the Federation disallowed his record because he had made it with starting blocks, Simpson threw away his blocks and went out to practice. He said that in the 100-vard dash at the Western Conference Meet he was going to beat Tolan's world record with Tolan running behind...
...Crimson triumph must be dimmed by the record of Yale's performances against Princeton Har- vard supporters may well worry at Engle's mark of 21 7-10 seconds in this furlong, Kieselhort's 23 8-5 in the lows, Conner's 165 feet 2 1-2 inches in the hammer, Brandenburg's 135, 7 1-4 in the discus, and Gorman of Yale's 44 feet 5 1-2 inches in the 16-pound shot. It looks as if the Blue will have at least a safer advantage when it plays host to the Crimson at New Haven...
...yard dash was credited to one Alfred ("Truck") Miller of Har- vard, a 200-lb. runner. Angry spectators near the starting line asserted that Miller, though no hurdler, had managed to jump the pistol...