Harvard Alumni Meet Debates Broad Policies For University
Harvard President A Lawrence Lowell pushes for a national university role with broader intellect social life and physical strength as core goals. Alumni discuss admissions degrees graduate credits freshmen care and college examinations while New England Harvard Clubs seek admittance on a financial basis.
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Cincinnati
Harvard
A. Lawrence Lowell
Lowell
Harvard College
Eliot
Henry L. Higginson
Boston
Lowill
New England Federation of Harvard Clubs
Slocum
New York
Winslow
New England
Harvard Instructors
Botany Teacher in Newton Beats Discharge
Miss Elizabeth E. Bickford, a six year high school botany instructor, issued an open letter to Newton citizens stating she was discharged two weeks ago for asking to plan her own work. She says her work passed uncriticised for six years and was terminated for not being in harmony with the system.
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Newton
Elizabeth E. Bickford
Gum trust ready to form Sen Sen Chicle Company
Rumor in financial circles says a $10 million chewing gum combine will be formed to rival American Chicle. The Sen Sen Chicle Company would underwrite its stock in New York via Guarant ee Loan Company, with major independents joining the merger including Curtis & Son, F H Fleer, Grove Company, O T B Dunn, Sen Sen Company and C R Somerville Co of Canada.
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American Chicle Company
Sen Sen Chicle Company
New York
Guarantee Loan Company
Curtis & Son
Portland
F. H. Fleer & Co
Philadelphia
The
Grove Company
Salem
T. B. Dunn & Co
Sen Sen Company
C. R. Somerville Company of
Canada
Everett C. Tarr
Common Sense Gum Company
New Gum Combine
Mr. Tarr
T. B. Dunn
F. H. Fleet Company
Tarr
Gum makers plan merger to cut costs and ship brands
Major independent gum manufacturers including Mansfield New York Wrigley Zeno Chicago Bloodberry Chicago and William Wrigley Jr plan a June 1 merger. Curtis Son of Portland confirms the rumor saying the aim is economy in freight and printing while preserving brands.
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Mansfield Company
New York
Wrigley Company
Zeno Manufacturing Company
Chicago
Blood Berry Gum Company
William Wrigley, Jr., Company
Adam Leighton
Curtis & Son of
Portland
Leighton
Mr. Leighton
Curtis & Son
New England
Common Sense Gum Company
Boston
Boston Chicle Company
Maiden and
John B. Robbins
American Chicle Company
Oldest learning seats and US universities in question
The Post Letter Box asks about the world’s oldest learning institution and its founding date. Oxford is cited as oldest, with a traditional 872 foundation year though records are scarce. Harvard is noted as the oldest US university, founded in 1636.
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University of Oxford
Alfred
Harvard University
United States
Newton
Mass
Cambridge
Knights of St. John stage two plays at Whiton Hall Dorchester
Whiton Hall Dorchester hosted two plays last evening by the Knights of St. John the Baptist. Willard F. DeLuc played Robert Macaire with Evans W. Flynn as Jaques Strop in Who's Who.
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Robert Macaire
Whiton Hall
Dorchester
The
Knights of St. John the Baptist
Willard F. DeLuc
Evans W. Flynn
Jaques Strop
Charity Spurned by Preachers at Assembly Vote
Presbyterian preachers reject a plan for a graded pension fund for superannuated ministers as the commissioners at the general assembly vote down the Bolton proposal by an overwhelming margin. The meeting was in Denver on May 28.
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Denver
Col
General Assembly
J. Gray Bolton
Philadelphia
Pensions dispute ends with church relief plan
The long running friction between the ministerial relief board and the sustenation board eased as Dr. Bolton's resolution to refer their joint action to a special committee passed. Dr Howard Agnew Johnston condemned charity language and endorsed a plan urging loyal gifts from wealthy laymen while a unanimous resolution urged church support and individual donations.
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Board of Ministerial Relief
Bolton
Howard Agnew Johnston
Colorado Springs
Stranded Square Rigger Seen Off Cape John
An unknown square rigged vessel, likely a bark, lies stranded off Cape John twenty two miles west of Pictou Nova Scotia after a gale damaged its wire service. Believed Norwegian bound for Northumberland Strait, it lies 15 miles from a second bark wreck near Toney River.
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Pictou
N.S
Cape John
Northumberland Strait
Thoma
Toney River
Adana News Reports Tension Over Armenian Restitution
Despatches from Constantinople dated May 2 report disquieting conditions in Adana. Moslems resent restitution demands for Armenian stolen property and troops searching for it are seen as unreliable. Rumors speak of a reactionary movement among troops and possible new Armenian outbreak, with a fresh draft likely required.
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Constantinople
Adana
English Spies Watching Indian Prince at Harvard
Harvard Cosmopolitan Club president Hans von Kaltenborn reports Scotland Yard surveillance of Jaisingrao Gaekwar and P H Vogel after a club dinner speech predicting India's early freedom. Rumors say detectives were stationed in Cambridge, viewed by locals as a prank or overblown caution.
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Harvard
Jaisingrao Gaekwar
Sultan
Baroda
P. H. Vogel
Ootacamund
India
Scotland Yard
Hans von Kaltenborn
Harvard Cosmopolitan Club
State Department of Great Britain
Cosmopolitan Club
von Kaltenborn
America
Free Religious Association
Ford Hall
Gaekwar
Cambridge
Vogel
England
Alarm at Somerville Bank Triggers Police Stampede
Somerville police raced to Somerville National Bank last evening after the burglar alarm sounded. A crowd gathered as officers stormed the front door, and a bank employee appeared at a window, later explaining he may have inadvertently triggered the alarm during work. The doors opened and the officers departed.
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Somerville
Somerville National Bank
Baron Uriu and wife arrive in Washington for welcome dinners
Baron Soto kichi Uriu vice admiral of the Japanese navy and Baroness Uriu arrived in Washington for a week of dinners and receptions hosted in their honor.
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Washington
Baron Sotokichi Uriu
Baroness Uriu
King Edward Dines With Earl and Countess of Granard
King Edward dined tonight with the Earl and Countess of Granard at a royal residence in London. The event underscores continued close ties with the Granard family as public affairs proceed.
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London
Edward
Earl
Granard
Train Attacked During Georgia Railroad Firemen Strike
A moving freight train was attacked near Lithonia Georgia during the Georgia railroad firemen strike. The incident heightened tensions over the race issue amid talks of settlement. A black fireman was rushed to Atlanta on an engine to save him from violence.
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Atlanta
Georgia Railroad
Lithonia
Georgia strike disrupts trains blocks main line and fuels unrest
A freight train was derailed and blocked after attackers boarded cars near Lithonia causing air to be cut and brakes to set. Officials blame strike sympathizers while others call it an accident. Black fireman aboard engines draws comment as fear grows of race tensions and federal intervention. Ice and meat shipments halt as farmers reel from the disruption and food supplies tighten town to town.
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Lithonia
Atlanta
Georgia
Theer
Freedom From Prison Short
Sidney Hanson, recently released from the State prison, was arrested again yesterday afternoon after police inspectors checked him at headquarters last Saturday. William E. Appleton, new special officer for the Expressmen's League, stopped Hanson in a crowded Summer street car where Hanson had seized two bundles from an express wagon nearby.
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Sidney Hanson
Wiliam E. Appleton
Expressmen’s League
Hanson
Summer Street
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