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...Nanking an ambitious man got what he wanted. He was Dr. Vikyuin Wellington Koo. onetime Premier, onetime Minister to Great Britain and to the U. S. What he wanted: the coveted job of Foreign Minister. While Dr. Koo and others were eyeing the post longingly two months ago a band of "students" obligingly made it vacant by a savage assault upon the then Foreign Minister Dr. C. T. Wang who, severely injured, "resigned" (TiME, Oct. 5). One of the aspirants was Dr. Alfred Sze, delegate to the League of Nations. Many observers in Shanghai last week predicted that...
...temper of his sympathies. Predominantly Dry Bob and cricketish is Harrow; but Eton began playing cricket in 1730 and Harrow has no record of it before 1771. Eton has lost no Eton-Harrow match since 1908 (but eight were drawn), and Old Etonians like to remember that Old Etonian Wellington said: "The Battle of Waterloo was won on the playing fields of Eton!" Harrovians counter by pointing out that Eton has some 1,100 students from which to choose its cricketers; Harrow only 700. Seven weeks of holiday stretch from the end of the Summer Term to the beginning...
...Langhorne Astor; Viscounts Chelsea and Northland; Earl of Shrewsbury. Eton's many celebrated graduates include: 17 British Prime Ministers (Harrow has six including Lord Peel, Lord Palmerston and .Stanley Baldwin), Lord Roberts, Viscount Byng, Marquis Curzon, Sir Humphrey Gilbert, Major General Corn wall is, Arthur Wellesley Duke of Wellington, Novelist Henry Fielding, Poets Phineas and Giles Fletcher, Edmund Waller, Thomas Gray, Percy Bysshe Shelley (but George Gordon Lord Byron was a Harrovian...
Harvard-Stroke, A. M. Brown '34, 7, Gridley Barrows '34; 6, W. S. Wellington '34; 5, J. H. Packard '34; 4, A. F. Chace, Jr. '34; 3, C. S. Denny '34; 2, J. A> Martin '34; Bow, D. C. Morris '34; Cox, F. F. Jones...
...Grotty" pace-setter, who led his crew in a defeat of Noble and Greenough School in the traditional encounter last spring, the junior shell has provided the firsts with unusual competition, according to Coach Haines. The lineup is as follows: Stroke, Brown; 7, Gridley Barrows '34; 6, W. S. Wellington '34; 5, J. H. Packard '34; 4, A. F. Chace, Jr. '34; 3, C. S. Denny '34; 2, J. A. Martin '34; Bow, D. C. Morris...