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Woman's World was founded in 1901, soon claimed the largest U. S. monthly distribution record (2,000,000) but never made money. It was finally taken over by the company which supplied its paper, sold in 1917 to the late Walter Webster Manning, who continued the policy of small-town appeal. Last year Publisher Manning died, leaving the magazine to his sons Conant and Gordon. Gordon Manning, who got his first publishing experience as business manager for the Princeton Tiger (1928-29), ran the advertising end in Manhattan. His brother directed the publication in Chicago...
...middle of the night, a bomb placed under the rear porch wrecked the Worcester, Mass, home of 74-year-old Judge Webster B. Thayer, smashed hundreds of windows in the neighborhood, roused the entire city. Five years ago Judge Thayer condemned Radicals Sacco & Vanzetti to death. Despite hundreds of threatening letters, this was the first attempt on his life. Mrs. Thayer and maid were buried under debris, taken to a hospital not seriously injured. The judge was untouched. Said he: "They can't kill me that easily. I hate to think because a man does his duty...
...oarsmen out on the river for two days, hoping to keep them there until cold winds slow them in about the middle of November. Haines great vehicle of instruction, the leviathan, has been making four or five trips daily filled to the last seat with aspiring novices. A. N. Webster '33, a crew letter man for his last three years in college is again helping Haines with the Freshmen. About 175 men have turned out for Freshmen rowing; and those who claim prep school experience have been put into four shells and take long workouts under the megaphone...
...that an honor grade might be attained with little or no attendance at lectures. The close parallelism (or perhaps a better term might be found, for parallel lines never meet!) of the lectures and reading make much of the work pure repetition. Only a very few exceptions, notably Professor Webster's masterpiece on the History of Modern Britain and the British Empire, discuss tendencies and movements, thus introducing a spirit of life which cannot in the nature of things be derived from readings alone. And surely the much-emphasized traditions of unity, hats, and pointers, are not among the best...
President Lowell was a member of the so-called Lowell Commission appointed by former governor Alvan T. Fuller of Massachusetts to examine the evidence submitted to Judge Webster Thayer in the famed Sacco-Vanzetti case. Acting in accordance with the commission's findings, Governor Fuller refused to take any executive action in the line of pardoning the convicted men or commuting their death sentences. Fuller and Judge Robert Grant of Boston, also a member of the investigating commission, were guarded along with President Lowell. The third member, President Stratton of M.I.T., has since died...