Agricultural College at University of Winds Expands Training
The College of Agriculture at the University of Winds offers four degree courses agriculture, landscape architecture, floriculture, and home economics for about 600 students 368 in general agriculture. The program combines practical farming with extension research and prepares graduates for farm work, industry, teaching, and public service.
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Agricultural College
College of Agriculture
University of Winds
Couttise
University of Rlnols
The
University of Illinois Faculty Publish 63 Books and 730 Articles
A Cham paign faculty report shows 1926 outputs totaling 63 books and 730 articles in magazines and educational journals. The tally underscores the faculty’s scholarly impact beyond classroom teaching, highlighting ongoing professional contribution to the community and field.
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Illinois
University of Illinois
Champaign
Yale
Ile Anerwin
University of
Facts Reveal Greatness at the University of Illinois
The University of Illinois spans 2 481 acres with 67 buildings on campus and 356 acres of cultivated land. It serves 18 781 students across Chicago and Urbana with 1 880 regular staff, and houses a library of 68 300 volumes planned to expand with a third unit in the 1927 29 appropriation.
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University of Illinois
University
Chicago
Urbana
Enrollment Totals At University Of Kinois Reach thirteen thousand seven hundred thirty one
The registrar G P Tuttle reports 13 731 students attended the state university during the year ending March 1. Men outnumber women 9 745 to 3 88 with Chicago Urbana departments included. Summer and winter sessions add 1 257 and 11 829, yielding the grand residence total.
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G P Tuttle
University of Kinois
State University
Chicago
Urbana
College of Medicine
Dentistry and Pharmacy
Bureau of Business Research Aids State Merchants
The Bureau of Business Research at the College of Commerce helps state business men by studying economic and industrial conditions and promoting good management. It publishes bulletins on topics including financial ratios of public utilities and a large Chinese money market study, aimed at delivering results to all business interests.
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Bureau of Business Research
The
College of Commerce
Bureau
Commonwealth
University Again Seeks Same State Aid For Two Years
The University of Illinois asks the state for 5.25 million dollars per year for the next two years, matching the level approved in 1921 and subsequent biennia. Nine million will cover operation and maintenance, while one and a half million funds new buildings including a third unit of the library, Lincoln Hall completion, and a materials testing laboratory. The board argues funds are needed to expand teaching, facilities, and to keep the university a world leader in materials strength research.
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University
Kinley
Board of Trustees
Lincoln Hall
Lincoln Halls
Public utilities courses studied at Illinois College
The University of Illinois College of Commerce offers seven courses on public utilities. Topics include general economics, rates, regulation, operation, management, and graduate thesis work. The first four utilities form a $20 billion monopoly under state regulation, prompting key economic and social questions.
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College of Commerce and Business Administration
University of Illinois
Financial Policy Is Sound at University of Illinois
The University of Illinois fiscal policy is praised as one of the most efficient in the state and has influenced legislative thinking. Six years ago the board adopted a ten year budget plan, followed faithfully, with allocations preserved by the last three legislatures, challenging other public institutions to show similar restraint and prudent budgeting.
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University of Illinois
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State University
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Waukegan UN
Disraeli Master of Diplomatic Bluff at Berlin Congress
An entertaining anecdote from Maj Gen Sir Leopold Swaine notes Disraeli at the 1878 Berlin congress. Bismarck warned that Gortschakoff and the British premier might clash, but Disraeli dismissed the threat, recounting a polite reply from a station master about a special train, which led to a favorable outcome without fighting.
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Sir Leopold Swaine
Bismarck
Gortschakoff
England
Berlin
Dizzy
Profane Promise Kept by Great Tragedian
The eccentric actor Junius Brutus Booth delayed a Boston King Lear performance then appeared to calm a riotous crowd. He announced a ten minute wait and delivered what was promised, earning a noted triumph.
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Junius Brutus Booth
Boston
Booth
Scribner’s Magazine
Mirror lure patent aims to fool fish in 1916
William P. Ziegler of Ambridge Pennsylvania received a patent for Artificial Fish Bait in 1916. The device uses a wood body with a mirror to reflect a fish’s image to stimulate aggression and greed, enticing the fish to strike the lure.
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William P. Ziegler
Ambridge
Sports Window Honors Major and Minor Games In NYC Cathedral
A chapel window in St. John the Divine in New York depicts eight major sports polo golf tennis baseball horse racing rowing track and field and football. Smaller sections show steeplechase cycling basketball handball swimming gymnastics yachting bowling billiards skating hockey soccer fencing wrestling pole vault trap shooting and motor boating.
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Cathedral of
St. John the Divine
New York City
Overcame Adversity: a history of success and handicaps
The piece traces how figures from Stanley to Livingstone Twain and Burns rose from poverty or hardship to achievement. It highlights humble beginnings, from workhouses and mills to influential roles, framing adversity as a conduit to notable feats across exploration literature and politics.
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Livingstone
Africa
Mark Twain
Thomas Price
Parliament House
Robert Burns
Scotland
Mixed Rabbit Hare Features Noted in Cottontail Description
A Nature Magazine article describes the cottontail as blending hare and rabbit traits. It notes a smaller size, short legs and ears, and a snowy white tail underside visible when retreating. The animal eats vegetables and is not a pest when numerous. Average length about eighteen inches, weight three pounds.
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Nature Magazine
Virtues of Tea Drinking in Japanese Custom
The Dearborn Independent reports ancient Japanese tea beliefs attributing protection by divinities, filial duty, virtue suppression, removal of drowsiness, harmony of organs, disease immunity, and lasting health. It links tea to amity, sound morality, and peaceful disposition.
Statesman a Stickler for Legible Writing
Philip Guedalla notes via a Kansas City Times piece that Viscount Palmerston prized clear handwriting. He warned foreign office men against poor script, though many letters sloped or stood in rigid rows. Gladstone recalled Palmerston’s lucid hand and his insistence on connecting strokes with visible guides.
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Philip Guedalla
Palmerston
Lord Lansdowne
Kansas City Times
Foreign Office
Mr. Gladstone
Grandeur and Decay in Palaces of India
Aldous Huxley describes Indian royal residences as a mix of luxury and squalor. He notes cow droppings on steps, pigeons, beggars at gates, courtezans singing for a royal birth, odd furnishings, priceless stones piled in a Jewel Room, peeling paintings, a leprosy hit stucco, and Rolls Royces driven by ragged chauffeurs.
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Tottenham Court Road
Aldous Huxley
The vitality of translation and the classics
A reflection on translation limits tied to the original work. Virgil and Horace are timeless immortals whose multiform significance is reinterpreted by each era. A period’s view of poetry shapes its translations and the meanings it ascribes to the classics.
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Virgil
Horace
J. W. Mackall
Insane asylum draws Sunday crowd at golf course
An elderly woman, riding with her son and daughter in law, visits a state asylum behind a high wall then sees a busy golf course adjoining it. She jokes that the “poor crazy people” are out to the pasture, while the crowd on the course acts oddly.
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State Insane Asylum
Los Angeles Times
Real Speed Gingerly Passenger Recovers After Fall
A passenger in a two seat sports car climbs to firm ground after a clarobered exit and thanks the driver for the lift. The motorist downplays the speed, claiming it is nothing, and remarks that being with him would be riskier.
Crab Finds Rich Oil Field on Honduran Island
An island off Honduras yielded a high grade oil flow discovered after a land crab burrowed into marsh soil beneath a cottage. The owner, who had searched for oil for years without success, detected the odor and located the field. The infestation of crabs aided the find.
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Honduras
Long Wait at Family Cemetery Scene
A Palestine tourist asks about a graveyard as a guide explains the hill of gravestones is a family cemetery. The guide notes it holds Midhuselah’s next generation waiting for a rich uncle’s death.
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Midhuselah
New Orleans Times Licayane
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