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...like what happens in any present chance undergraduate gathering: sports, sex, the latest political scandal, examination grievances and the like will be the topics of conversation and any mention of history, painting, or chemistry will be banned as shop talk. As concerns education Harvard will not be the least bit richer than it is today...
...many another king, Alexander of Jugoslavia was sick last week with influenza when Monsignor Anton Koroshetz, the Prime Minister, called to say that he no longer had a majority in Parliament and must resign. His Majesty replied between coughs and snuffles that Monsignor Koroshetz would have to wait a bit...
...President was at Concord, visiting his relatives, when the word came that the College boys had, literally, raised the Devil. Prexy saddled his horse and hastened back to Cambridge to find that the report was true. The students were thoroughly frightened at something--whether a practical joke or a bit of black magic, the reader can best decide. Whatever it may have been, the President's remedy was masterly. Emptying his powder horn on the Hall floor, he solemnly exorcised the Evil One, and then, touching off the combustibles with a live coal, literally blew the Devil out of Harvard...
...superintendent, one Hickey, expressed gratitude by not forgetting. Three months later the new Colorado & Southern shop foreman at Trinidad, Colo., was a tireless, driving, hardheaded youngster named Walter Chrysler. Other railroads heard, needed, beckoned. After a bit the superintendent of motive power of the whole Chicago & Great Western system was a new man named Chrysler. "W. P." they called him, aged...
That Ferguson Family. Christmas week in the theatre is a time of plenty but not always one of jollity. While the holly wreaths hang high, the gloomiest producers, among them Gustav Blum, creep out with their dire presentations. Blum's latest bit of hardware was not so dull as festive critics found it, though not so good as its author, Howard Chenery, tried to make...