Yale Receives $738000 in Gifts This Year
New Haven June 23 Many gifts were made to Yale University during the past year President Arthur T Hadley told the alumni at its dinner after the commencement exercises. New gifts total about 80000 and include a 10000 Lee McClang scholarship and 25000 to rebuild the Newberry organ in Woolsey Hall.
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Alumni fund contributions and dinner remarks at the 1865 Sheff class reunion
Alumni contributions totaled 121046 dollars with eight living 1865 Sheff members contributing 10670 dollars. Alfred Lawrence Ripley, age 78, was reelected to the corporation. Dinner speakers included Ralph Adams Cram, Henry Sloane Coffin, William H Taft, and Justice Charles Evans Hughes. Taft urged better athletic ethics and rules enforcement, criticizing constant field chatter as improper.
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Yale Honors List Elevates Notables With Degrees
Yale confers honorary degrees on prominent figures including Ralph Adams Cram architect Charles E Hughes Supreme Court justice former New York governor George Foot Moore Harvard professor William Roscoe Thayer Harvard editor Henry Sloane Coffin Newark clergyman Lauress Birney Boston University theology dean Charles Wardell Stiles US zoology professor Katherine Bement Davis New York correction commissioner Edwin M Herr Westinghouse Air Brake president Melvin Stone AP general manager.
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New York City
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Taft Attacks Muckerism and Scouting Tactics at Yale
Taft denounces unethical practices like scouting through prep schools with inducements to lure athletic talent. He cites a case where a freshman was offered a $2000 salary after college in exchange for playing for another school. Coffin advocates keeping compulsory chapel at Yale. Cram and Hughes praise the role and spirit of American colleges amid world tension.
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Dartmouth 240 Degrees at 146th Commencement
Dartmouth College in Hanover awarded 240 bachelor’s degrees at Webster Hall led by Dean Craven Laycock. Speakers included A Bradley, D I Hitchcock, C E Griffith Jr, C B Jordan, R A Sawyer, and G B Young. Honoraries went to Daniel Willard, Rudolph Blankenburg, Charles A Prouty, Lewis Perry, Kenyon Cox, John P Brooks, Edwin H Stickney, Fred L Pattee, Rolland H Spaulding, William J Colbert, and Frank P Carpenter. The procession returned to alumni gym for a luncheon and the week closed with a commencement ball.
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Baltimore
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Manchester
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Joseph S Temple Dies at 76 in Reading
Joseph S Temple, senior member of J B Temple & Co., manufacturers, died yesterday at his home 26 Salem Street Reading after a brief pneumonia illness. Funeral set for Saturday at 3 PM from the residence.
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Record Crowd Fills Open Air Pageant in Lexington
A record crowd attended the second performance of the pageant of Lexington on the Twin Elm Spring estate. The cool evening suited the show and the event surpassed Monday night. State military officials were present for military night. Governor Walsh will attend and speak at tonight’s Governor’s night final performance.
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Litt. D. for Burke Awarded by Colby University
At Colby University Waterville Me 10 oclock yesterday morning Jeremiah E Burke of Boston Assistant Superintendent of Schools and Massachusetts State Board member received Litt. D Doctor of Letters the college’s highest honor Burke a Colby alumnus five years earlier led waterville Marlboro and Lawrence schools improving standards later guiding Boston schools since 190 he has written on education and social topics and spoken at national conventions
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Society Women Sell Lace for Belgian Aid
Boston's society women vote to serve as department store salesgirls to raise funds for Belgian relief, a plan announced at the Boston Women's City Club meeting last night. The effort aims to harness upper crust generosity for humanitarian aid.
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Lace Exhibition and Sale by Massachusetts Belgian Relief
The plan mirrors a recent English effort under the Countess of Aberdeen. Mile. Palmyre Schepens brings lace valued up to 3000 dollars to Boston for sale at cost through department stores. Society ladies act as salesgirls to raise funds for Belgian relief, with exhibitions at the women's club and committee homes before the Thursday morning sale.
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Punish Pupsils for Fighting at Marlboro High
Marlboro June 2 The school committee met to determine disciplinary action for seniors and juniors after a noon fight on the school lawn. The senior class through president Marshall Balfour must apologize and forfeit class day privileges. the junior class loses its class day next year. After delays, seniors entered to receive diplomas and attributed their stance to unity.
Governor Slaton Maintains Guard Over Home
Gov. Slaton kept a military guard at his suburban residence for several days after threats to damage the property over Lee M. Frank’s death sentence commutation. He reported no attempts since Monday and noted continued congratulations from Georgians and praise from Assembly members at the capitol.
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Old Schoolboys Return for 34th Nantasket Outing
The Old School Boys of Boston gathered at the Atlantic House Nantasket for their 34th annual outing. Notables William B. Stacey and Phillias M. Crane, both in their late seventies, attended with Charles Chage the 98 year old father of the president unable to attend.
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Man Arrested After Attempted Robbery Of Boston Woman
Fred M. Johnson, 24, of 30 West Fifth Street South Boston, arrested after 10 pm near Purchase Street for assault and battery with attempted robbery of Mildred E. Lovejoy of 11 East Newton Street. Miss Lovejoy and her friend John Budge attempted to intervene as Johnson and a companion wrestled for her handbag. officers from City Hall Avenue station placed him under arrest after Lovejoy alerted authorities on Atlantic Avenue.
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Charlie Chaplin Amateur Contest at Bowdoin Square Theatre
Amateurs with talent may display their ability tonight at Bowdoin Square Theatre in a Charlie Chaplin Contest. Many entries have registered at the box office from all parts of the city and it promises to be one of the season s most humorous events.
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Funeral for Canadian Soldiers in Paris
Funeral services were held at the Madeleine for Canadian soldiers fallen in France and Belgium. President Poincare was represented by an officer. Phillippe Ray the Canadian Commissioner and staff attended with officers and a detachment of English women on active service.
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