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...contributing to the Mark Twain Centennial, Librarian Asa Don Dickinson of Brooklyn College made public the full text of a letter written by the humorist in 1905. Librarian Dickinson, then of the Brooklyn Public Library, had forwarded a complaint by the young woman in charge of his Children's Department that Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn were mischievous and deceitful examples for children. Replied Author Twain...
...library announced recently by President Harold Willis Dodds. For some time hailed as the home of "professional football" and big-time athletics, Princeton has wisely chosen to construct a new library rather than replace her notoriously old gymnasium, about which there has been so much under-graduate and alumni complaint. This action should go for toward discouraging much unjust criticism which has been directed toward that university. -Yale News
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...complaint of a party of Indian trappers, Dr. James Alexander ("Bud") Stillman was haled into court at La Tuque, Que. On vacation last spring he was hunting on his Canadian preserve when he came upon the Indians loaded with fresh skins and living in one of his camps. Furious, he slashed their tents, seized their skins.' threw their provisions into the river. Pleading guilty, Dr. Stillman paid $10 and costs...
...chief practical pleasures of college life. They are living at Harvard, but to all practical intents and purposes they might just as well be living at home. Every student who is admitted to Harvard ought to be entitled to his share of college life, and he has a justified complaint if it is not granted...