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Professor Wilder Dwight Bancroft, 67-year-old Cornell University chemist, dislikes doctors as scientists. His immediate reason is that they refuse to concede that he has discovered an elixir of long life, a panacea for insomnia, alcoholism and sciatica, a preventive of "nervous breakdowns," hardening of the arteries and common colds, a cure for manic depressive insanity and epilepsy...
John Harvard's three hundred and twenty-seventh birthday will be celebrated by a special service in the Appleton Chapel of the Memorial Church today at 8.45 o'clock this morning, held under the auspices of the Memorial Society. Henry Wilder Foote '97, Minister of the first Unitarian Church, Belmont, will give the commemorative address. A Baccalaureate Hymn, written by Lionel DeJersey Harvard, a lineal descendant of John Harvard, for his own Commencement in 1915, will be sung at the conclusion of the service after which the members of the Memorial Society will place a wreath on the John Harvard...
...celebration, which has been arranged under the direction of Daniel E. Burbank, Jr. '37, of the Memorial Society, will consist of a sermon on John Harvard given by Henry Wilder Foote '27, a prayer, and the singing of the hymn "Old Hundred," and "Fair Harvard." Following the services the members of the society will place a wreath on the John Harvard statue. All members of the University are invited to these commemorative services...
...Last week President Roosevelt appointed a man with a big name to a small job. The man: Oscar Wilder Underwood Jr., son of Alabama's late great Senator. The job: the Mexican General Claims Commission. This agency was created to settle damages incurred by U. S. citizens during Mexico's 1910-20 period of revolutions. Graduated from the University of Virginia, Oscar Underwood Jr. was in Paris as a law clerk for a U. S. firm when war broke out in 1914. Back home in 1916, he served on the Mexican border with his Alabama militia regiment, then...
...mountain trails and strolled in the great park. The couple were dogged constantly by Inspector Harry Evans of Scotland Yard who has dogged Mahatma Gandhi, spends much time dogging Cabinet Ministers. One night Prince George sent a long cablegram to King George at Balmoral Castle amid Scottish scenery even wilder than the Slovene. Next day Prince Paul and his wife Princess Olga, eldest sister of Princess Marina, chaperoned her and Prince George on an excursion out of the Balkans to the Salzburg music festival. A few hours before King George announced the engagement, Prince George appealed to Austrian newshawks: "Please...