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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Feb 27, 1915
Page
3
Professor Harry Ward of Boston University argues for a staged path to social change starting with workshop democracy, then cooperative enterprise, direct trade, state socialism, and finally a transformed state. He says democracy cannot be stopped despite materialist powers.
A Harvard football player driven from varsity as a result of poor grades and mislabelled a coward inspires a $100 prize winning film scenario by William M. Marston ofClifftondale, senior at Harvard. The story follows an athlete facing big team pressures.
Marston won first prize among 387 entrants for a story about a Harvard athlete who struggles with money debts and neglects studies leading to expulsion from the football squad. A rival report branding him a coward shatters his love affairs and ends his football career.
Marston, Phi Beta Kappa Harvard scholar, studies psychology under Hugo Munsterberg at Radcliffe College. He develops a wrist device to test truthfulness by blood pressure and plans to use it in legal cases once admitted to the bar.
A special loan exhibition opened yesterday at Harvard's Fogg Museum of Art, featuring rare Italian paintings from early Florentine, Sienese, and Venetian schools. Highlights include works attributed to Perugino and Fra Angelico, Paolo Uccello, Lorenzo di San Severino, Pinturicchio, and a Madonna with Child, with the display running for two weeks.
The final tea in the Harvard series was held at Phillips Brooks House in Cambridge yesterday afternoon with more than 100 students attending. Professors Kurlo Francke Wambaugh Baker and Roger I. Lee joined in the receiving line.
Irish syndicalist Jim Larkin arrives in Boston after a delay and will address Tremont Temple tonight on high industrial fairs and the Dublin labor troubles, with a retelling of the Dublin strike story.
The Irish agitator Eamon Larkin faces mixed Boston reception as he and German scholar Kuno Meyer press Ireland’s cause and German sympathy. Critics call his religious and political stances misrepresented while organizers insist he will discuss the Dublin strike and direct action syndicalism. A large temple crowd is expected tonight.
A lecture on practical poultry raising by Professor J C Graham of Massachusetts Agricultural College closed the Quannapowitt Poultry Association show in the Wakefield Armory yesterday. He lectured in the afternoon and evening and a number of choice birds were auctioned. Prize winners were among the exhibits, and the colorful pheasants drew much attention.
Brookline Milk Inspector W F Ward reports reforms to quiet morning deliveries to Chestnut Hill residents. Milkmen now sort bottles and ice only near vacant lots, eliminating disturbances. Companies reduced wagon wheel noise by rubber tires and taped bottle carriers with rubber fixtures at seven dollars per wheel.
Five occupants of a large touring car were injured on Boylston road near Peterboro street when the driver swerved to avoid an oncoming vehicle and hit the curb. Injuries included facial and head cuts to Frank P. Bemis and Mrs. Waters, facial cuts to Mrs. Seymour Johnson, bruising to Richard P. Waters, and minor cuts to chauffeur Hector B. Tyler.
An ad features a conversation praising Dyspeptlets for sour stomach distress heartburn and indigestion. A speaker claims personal and friends’ relief and promises a money back guarantee. The tone invites the reader to dine comfortably again with Dyspeptlets.
Former Lieutenant Governor Edward P. Barry of Boston announces his candidacy for the Democratic nomination for Governor should Governor Walsh not run. He hopes Walsh will seek another term if he declines.
A citizen appeals for continued leadership of His Excellency David I. Walsh as Governor in 1916, recalling strong support in 1914 and noting friendly disagreement on personnel while urging another term.
Edward P. Barry asserts his bid for governor in 1916, pledging to run if Walsh declines re election. He claims decades of fighting corrupt political machine methods and asserts strong support from the people. He says his success is owed to the voters and vows no apologies to opposed politicians or biased press.
Sugar arrives in port aboard two steamers totaling over 12 million pounds. United Fruit Company ships on the regular route will carry sugar to ease shortages without crowding other freight. Ossaban and Knud II each delivered more than 6 million pounds of sugar within hours of each other.
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