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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 05, 1917
Page
3
One hundred seventy eight freshmen entered Tufts College at opening. Total college registration will be about one hundred students less than last year. Medical school had 408 students, five fewer. dental school 500, down eight. Engineering and liberal arts saw the biggest drop as 25 upperclassmen returned.
After the fatal South Boston streetcar plunge, motorman Gerald Walsh faced trial before Judge Dana and a Suffolk County jury. The disaster left nearly 50 people drowned when the trolley sank in Fort Point Channel after the Summer Street bridge draw opened.
An indictment accuses Walsh of assault and reckless driving in a fatal Boston streetcar accident on the Summer street bridge route. Witnesses describe the crash sequence, gate damage, and rescue efforts as the trial resumes.
An effigy of Senator la Follette, placarded with his name, was found on a bridge near Sheboygan early today by a passing motorist who alerted the sheriff. The dummy was removed without incident.
Miss Helen Colony Culver who served eight years as secretary of the College of the Spoken Word and was a graduate of the institution died yesterday at the home of Charles F. Adams at 3 Myrtle Street in Jamaica Plain.
A woman named Miss Culver found a pimple on her face while at work on Saturday and picked it. She developed facial pain, was taken home by car on Tuesday, and died after losing consciousness without regaining it.
Stanley King of Boston secretary of the W H Mecklwain Shoe Company and a director of the Boston Chamber of Commerce will be today appointed special assistant to Secretary of War Baker. He will handle all matters relating to business before the War Department and has done similar work for the Council of National Defence since last April. King has been in Washington for several months, having disengaged from the McElwain company and worked with the Committee on Supplies of the Council of National Defence.
The Cosmopolitan Club hosts a formal welcome for 150 international Harvard students from nearly 40 countries at Phillips H Brooks House. Speakers include Harvard students from Japan China Porto Rico and Siam Captain Amann of the French military mission and Professor Byron S Urlburt will also speak.
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