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William J. Bingham '16, Director of Athletics in the University will leave Cambridge on January 26 for a week's tour of the Middle West, visiting various schools and Harvard clubs in the interests of the University. Before he returns to Cambridge on February 4, Mr. Bingham will visit St. Paul, Kansas City, St. Louis, and Syracuse...
...Hamlen became secretary of the Alumni Association in 1927 and in that capacity has been very successful in bringing together effectively the various interests of the Harvard Alumni body. He was instrumental in establishing the Harvard Fund in 1925 and has been chairman of the executive committee of the Fund Council since that time...
...Khan charges for the really enormous quantity of water in which he bathes each year, only his weight in gold. The ceremony of weighing His Highness takes place each twelvemonth at Aga Hall, Bombay; and then and there the golden wage is payed by representatives of the various Mohammedan sects. No fool, the Aga Khan keeps fat. Also he is at pleasure to stand in with the British Government,* which pays him privily a fat subsidy for his good offices among the Mohammedan subjects of George V, Last week at Delhi, the splendrous new Capital of British India...
During the Mexican War, Bennett established a courier system for the Herald correspondents; he covered the Civil War with 40 reporters on the various fronts. As a source of news, the Herald dominated the U. S. field and was practically the only U. S. newspaper read in Europe. President Lincoln, knowing the importance of the Herald, once offered Bennett the portfolio of Minister to France...
...show how various European photographers get their portrait effects, Mr. Speaight posed himself for 18 of them. He donned a Little Lord Fauntleroy costume for a famed maker of child photographs, he dressed as a woman for a taker of women's photographs; posing for a man who made portrait studies of five Lord Chancellors he put on wig and robe...