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Newspaper
Boston Post
Location
Boston, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Oct 10, 1917
Page
11
The Episcopal Theological School in Cambridge reports this year’s registration down by 50 percent from last year. Two professors are in war service, so their special courses will be omitted this year.
The Food Administration plans licenses for about 20 basic foods to curb profiteering hoarding and speculation. President Wilson to issue an executive order requiring manufacturers and distributors to operate under licensing rules to protect national war needs.
A will filed for probate in New York City leaves Harvard University a bequest of 10000 dollars. The document also bequeaths numerous books prints prints and old theatre programmes. Evert Jansen Wendell died in Paris on August 28.
More than 600 people attended a dance at Intercolonial Hall hosted by James Holt for the Provincetown Fund benefiting families of fishermen who perished in the August storm. Pauline Mason led a dancing exhibition that drew applause along with performances by Charlie Williams Alice Keough Dutch Bold Rita Townsend Jesse Odella and a quartet.
The Wellesley College girls learned that the larder is well stocked with sweets and edibles despite wartime food costs. Butter will not be served at dinner, disappointing the student body.
A movement to aid soldiers from the Dorchester Ashmont district will start this evening at the Ashmont Social Club. Local board members and prominent residents back the effort to send helmets wristers sweaters and other winter protection items to the troops.
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