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...contrast between Basque impetuosity and English simplicity, pay a very modest price in losing the outside as well as the inside of their pocket-books; in fact, they 'get off easy'; but I don't care about them; I want to know what became of that American boy who danced so well and over whose head the plate was smashed. Was his skull fractured? And what manner of man was Mr. Kornfield's Sergius, so stirred by a chromo, competent analyst of Oscar Wilde's tremendous ballad, victim of the Sicilian fruit seller and the New York policeman...
...most famous men to perish in the Titanic disaster last spring. He was an artist, and at one time a war correspondent during the Russo-Turkish war, winning medals for bravery at the siege of Plevna. He also served in the Civil War as a drummer-boy. His paintings took prizes and medals at Paris, New Orleans, and Chicago. He was granted the degree of A.M. by the University...
...account of the communications which Professor Hyslop, a prominent member of the Society for Psychical Research, claims to have had from the late Professor William James. To the layman the account is fantastic and puzzling: the story of how Professor Hyslop, through the medium of a fifteen-year old boy, held conversations on several different occasions with the "spirit" of Professor James, which proved to the former's satisfaction the fulfillment of a promise made by Professor James to give him some "sign" from the "spirit world." The public has often been fooled by false mediums, by tricks of legerdemain...
...secretary. One half of these men are teaching at the Cambridge Prospect. Union, Social Union, and the Cambridge Y. M. C. A. These men have classes in English for foreigners, classes in civics, in arithmetic, in spelling, in composition, and debating. The remaining men are divided about equally in boys' club work of various kinds, such as dramatic and athletic clubs and boy scout troupes. About 12 men are also occupied in juvenile court work. This number compares very favorably with that for the same period last year, though no exact comparison can be made because last year's report...
...which the new plan requirements will be enforced, but rather that a fuller understanding has been acquired among both principals and students of elementary schools as to the purpose for which the change was instituted, and that there has developed a realization of the fact that, for the average boy in a private school, the old plan continues to be the easier method of admission. Evidence that the new plan does not greatly affect the private schools is shown by the fact that out of the total of 154 new plan men 124 came from public schools...