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After a long contest, the will of Barbara Scott, an eccentric and miserly woman in Montreal, has been pronounced valid. She willed a large property to public objects, giving $40,000 to McGill University for the foundation of a school of engineering, and leaving the remainder to hospitals, churches and public benefit institutions...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: No Headline | 11/9/1882 | See Source »

...after the Seniors, take the most pleasure in it, are the "buds." Now who ever heard one of these complain of the length of a ball? No, no, it is absurd to suppose that such transparent sophistry should impose for a moment upon men who have learned their Barbara Celarent...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: AN ENTIRE CLASS-DAY. | 10/12/1877 | See Source »

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