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...meeting of the Advocate Board last night, it was announced that Richard Thomas. Sherman '28 of Algona, Iowa, and Richard Arnold stout '29 of Louisville, Kentucky, had been elected to the Literary Board, and that Paul Thompson Sherman '28 of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and James Campbell Weir '30 of Cleveland, Ohio, had been elected to the Business Board...
...Dispersed into the lobbies as Lord Weir dwelt lugubriously on unemployment, pointing out that, whereas 7.8% was the greatest unemployment figure prior to the War, no less than 13.4% or 2,500,000 are now dependent upon poor law relief...
...named yesterday by the proctors of the several halls, as follows: James Smith: Bernard Barnes, J. M. Davis, J. R. Graham, W. E. Hutton 2nd; Persis Smith; O. S. Chute D. M. Gierasch, R. K. Leonard, H. T. Wenner; George Smith; B. D. Hanighen, James Roosevelt, J. C. Weir, R. D. Williams...
Death sought last week a kindly and distinguished Canadian, just turned three score and ten, vacationing at Cedarhurst, his rustic estate on Lake Memphremagog, Quebec. Robert Stanley Weir, for 16 years Recorder of Montreal (1899-1915) was mourned by Canadians last week not because of his lifetime of public service and distinguished legal reputation but as the author of O Canada, the Canadian national song. Strictly speaking, Jurist Weir did not "write" O Canada but paraphrased and extensively altered into English an earlier version in French by Judge Routhier. The present version, chanted by Canadians on public occasions, is almost...
...Prince Umberto Ruspoli, brother of the late Prince Enrico Ruspoli, scion of a most ancient and distinguished Roman house; at his estate near Genzano, attacked and shot through the heart by a thief. Died. Senator Bert M. Fernald, 68; at West Poland, Me., of heart disease. Died. Robert Stanley Weir, 69; in Memphremagog, Quebec. Died. Margaret Charlotte Smith Howard, 72, Baroness Strathcona, rich, only child of the first Lord Strathcona, widow of a prominent physician; at her Park Lane home in London. A peeress in her own right through special provision, Baroness Strathcona in October 1922 gave...