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...Cleveland, of Buffalo, N. Y., was beginning his second term as U S President when a man named Walter Platt Cooke, recently come of age, put his legal services in the Buffalo market. He knew Buffalo-it was about the only city he did know. It had supplied his crib, his rattle, his roller skates, his education- everything except an LL. B. degree which he had obtained from across the hills, at Cornell University...
...went to mass. That Christmas is still vividly remembered. Very few did not go to the Christmas mass. My father and a few others. . . . I remember I followed my mother. In the church there were many lights and on the altar, in a little flowered crib, the Child born in the night. It was all picturesque and it satisfied my fancy. The odor of the incense alone disturbed me so that sometimes it gave me unbearable discomfort. At last the notes of the organ closed the ceremony. The crowd swarmed out. Along the street was a satisfied chatter. At midday...
...trust in the country. I asked him to answer collect, but he didn't answer at all. I shall go to Washington soon, and then I shall have much to say about Taft and to his face if he will listen. Taft has been eating at the public crib since he was a boy in knickerbockers and it's time he took a vacation...
...hesitate to hand in other men's theses signed with their own name, . . . why men get other men to sit in their seats to prevent being marked absent, the reason why they will read off another man's paper in a test or even out and out 'crib' in an examination, is the same in each case. Because the rest of the undergraduates . . . do not think any the less of a man for doing one of these things. More often than not deceitful methods are merely considered clever or amusing. Harvard needs a sense of honor...
...Petrina" (registered and pedigree), white with brindle mark on head, by Champion "Tinker," out of Nettle. Grand shoulders, enormous scull, perfect body, weight 41 lbs., excellent mother, affectionate, safe, quiet, clean, will make good breeder. She combines the blood of Champion "Alaric" (King Orry's grandfather), Champion "Monarch," "Spartan," Crib and Venice. The above is a kennel companion to "Bayswater Nell," now the property of Newton Kennels. Inspection invited. Apply to Morse's Stable, 1 Dunster St., Cambridge...