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...peasant's son, a bad boy at school, at college a passionate disciple of Professor Masaryk, later a starveling pamphleteer at Paris, Dr. Benes was one of the first men to guess which way the World War would jump...
...February. The price was not named. Apparently the syndicate had forfeited its $500,000. Mr. Brown is a big operator. He has dealt in $35,000,000 worth of real estate in the past few years, although it is said that he came to this country as an immigrant boy with no money and little knowledge of English...
While he was still a boy playing in the shade of the ohia-lehuas, digging yams and arums under the kukui, the algarola and the bastard sandalwood, the little kingdom went from bad to better and from better to worse, while the corpulent monarchs, after their daily lomi-lomi, shuffled across and off this mortal coil. Young Dole was educated at Oahu College, and then went to Williams College. He received his law training in Boston and returned again to the Islands, but still the great 200, 300, 400 Ib. monarchs, begarlanded, strutted on their way ?an illustrious dynasty...
While a ten-year-old boy played on a cornet, they elected a patron saint-Benjamin Franklin-even though the printers and the Saturday Evening Post already have his memory enshrined. Franklin played on the violin and guitar, composed a few conventional songs, and invented a long-obsolete musical instrument, the "armonica."* The musical chambermen found these facts decisive...
...Alexanian '27 has joined the ranks of undergraduate authors with his book. "When I Was a Boy in Armenia." The book is dedicated to Dean R. E. Bacon '16, and inscribed to Harvard University, to which the author declares his great indebtedness for his present progress from the backward education of Armenia to the higher training afforded here...