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Distinguished gentlemen, dan gling golden keys from their watch-chains, made pilgrimage into his toric Virginia, to listen at Williamsburg to the mellow accents of Dr. Henry van Dyke, Princeton poet-patriarch; to hear a sweet-voweled memorial poem by Dr. John Erskine of Columbia (author, The Private Life of Helen of Troy and Galahad) ; to attend the prophetic utterance of Dr. Charles Franklin Thwing, president emeritus of Western Reserve University and president of Phi Beta Kappa, who dedicated before the gathering that scholarly brotherhood's $100,000 memorial auditorium. Dr. Oscar M. Voorhees, secretary...
...last year's game was injured playing against Loyola two weeks ago, but is in good shape again. Davis is a veteran wingman who crossed the Crimson goal line last year when he snatched a pass, and is a slashing defensive player as well. Coach Tasker of the Williamsburg aggregation has built up an offense around these two veteran back. Last year Harvard was primed for a vaunted aerial attack, so primed in fact that ordinary defense was forgotten and the Southerners changed their tactics and gained extensively on all sorts of world running plays...
...were on the verge of believing that the President had become a follower of the Jeffersonian policy of state rights rather than that of the Hamiltonian doctrine of centralization, but before the echoes of his Williamsburg speech [TIME, May 24] have died away, we find him entering upon the most centralized power of the national Government by this executive order...
...Washington, D. C. The society's president, President Emeritus Charles Franklin Thwing of Western Eeserve University, was on hand, eruditely genial. Members of the mother chapter were there-President J. A. Chandler and Drs. R. M. Hughes and J. Lesslie Hall, of the College of William & Mary (Williamsburg, Va.) where (the year after Paul Revere rode through Massachusetts) one John Heath and four comrades started a secret fraternity into which 45 others were initiated in the next four years, and which chartered chapters at Harvard, Yale and elsewhere...
...Keymen have planned to assemble again next December at Williamsburg to dedicate a building whose cornerstone they laid last June (TIME, June 15), a memorial headquarters for the United Chapters of P. B. K. toward which the 40,000 living members have been contributing a million-dollar endowment fund. (Last week, Keyman John D. Rockefeller Jr., Brown '97, contributed...