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...difficulties of giving the soldiers of the War a bonus caused an extra session of the Kansas Legislature to be called for August 6. A bond issue of $25,000,000 was originally floated to pay the bonus. It is now found to be from $3,000,000 to $10,000,000 less than the needed amount. The cause of the shortage was that the Kansas Legislature knew not what they did. They voted to pay soldiers, sailors and marines one dollar a day for the actual time they were in service during the World...
Most of the visiting professors are leaving America very shortly, but many will remain to teach at the summer sessions of various colleges in this country. Among the latter will be Professor R. W. Bond of Nottingham University College who, although still in New York, will soon arrive in Cambridge to give courses in English at the University Summer School. Professor F. S. Boas, who is President of the English Branch of the Association, will teach at the University of Chicago, and Professor H. J. C. Grierson of Edinburgh University at Cornell. Professor A. E. Morgan of the University College...
Others describe their favorites?Olga Petrova, "dignified but not ritzy"?Lew Cody, "a highly polished gentleman and a lovely person to meet" "petite little Jackie Saunders," etc. A college girl bought a liberty bond from Mary Pickford? "a thrill that comes but once in a life time." A waitress in a tearoom who waited on Eugene O'Brien had him write his name in her Spanish book which "It is useless to say, I shall never sell...
...present the Office has on hand many openings for bond salesmen, and men who are interested in this line will be given and excellent chance of finding some satisfactory position...
...judge by the number of offers from bond offices which the average senior receives in his morning's mail, the college education is not the utterly valueless thing it is commonly considered. There seems to be almost innumerable "houses" only too anxious for the addition of a few "bright young college men" to their staff of salesmen; even if those same bright young men have obtained a degree in Physics or English Literature by only the narrowest of margins...