Mary Garden, opera star: " I returned from Europe. Said I: 'I adore Bill Tilden [W. T. Tilden, II, national tennis champion], and he insists that I shall play in a match with him. . . Billy is a dear. . .'"

John H. MacCracken,* President of Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.): "I announced that the Lafayette College faculty voted to compete for Edward W. Bok's $100,000 American Peace Award. A special committee will invent our plan. The Peace Award circularized all universities, colleges, law schools, inviting entries. Lafayette was the first to respond."

Henry Noble MacCracken,* President of Vassar College: "A cane which once spanked Matthew Vassar, founder of Vassar College, when he returned home after running away, was presented to our institution. This cane will be used by the students in leading cheers and songs."

James Rowland Angell, President of Yale University: "At a reception given to the Freshman Class, said I: 'You cannot under the Federal law and you cannot under the University law bring intoxicating liquors into any building of the University. . . . When you go out into the streets [of New Haven, Conn.] it is your business to observe the ordinary amenities of life. . . . The University will not permit dissipation!'"

Mrs. William Randolph Hearst: 'In the Marie Antoinette room of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, London, a dinner was given in my honor by two of my husband's editors. Those present included: Arnold Bennet, A S. M. Hutchinson, Gilbert K. Chesterton, Rebecca West, W L George, J. D. Beresford, E. Phillips Oppenheim, Charles G. and Kathleen Norris."

Johan Bojer, Norwegian novelist: I arrived from Norway to lecture to my half million former countrymen, now U. S. farmers. Said I: ' It is not good for Norway, this emigration. But it is no doubt an excellent thing for the U. S. . . . The future American will be a big blond man.'"

" Billy " Sunday, evangelist: " Attendance at my Niagara Falls revivals was sparse. I gave the officials in charge a 'verbal lambasting.' Then 7,000 crowded the tabernacle."

Dr. Adolf Lorenz, famed orthopedic surgeon: "Arriving from Vienna on the steamship Resolute, I discussed eugenics. I said that a man before he marries should know the character and health of his wife and should have known her well several years; that a man should be about eight years older than his wife; that I am unalterably opposed to marriage when the woman is older than the man."

Francis White, vaudeville veteran: " A San Francisco reporter termed me ' an animated exclamation point.' In our interview, said I to him: 'I found a shop where I could get shoes, which is quite wonderful--for I wear a very small size.'"

John D. Rockfeller: "On the 63rd anniversary of my first job (in a Cleveland commission house), said I: 'But for the discipline I got in those three and a half years I might now amount to nothing.'"

Dorothy Russell, daughter of the late Lillian Russell, actress: "In Pittsburgh I filed charges against my stepfather, Alexander P. Moore, U. S. Ambassador to Spain. I accused him of gross mismanagement of my mother's estate, which now brings me only $50 a week. The proceeds of the sale of her belongings (including precious jewels and photographs autographed by princes and kings) amounted to only $40,000. My attorney said that this was inconceivably small."

Cyril Maude, actor: "My son, John Maude, returned to his studies at Oxford after a serious illness. On Broadway soon afterwards a friend of his suggested to me that it would be difficult for him to find and enter a profession not already overcrowded. Said I: 'I have a profession all picked out for him. I am going to bring my son to America and make him a taxicab color designer.' "

*The Presidents MacCracken are brothers.