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...comes the Union, to throw open its doors tonight; to display, not its wares, but its place as a cog in the University's machinery. Time was, and not so very far back, when the Union's deficits ran so high and its popularity so low, that those who held to Major Higginson's ideal almost despaired. All that has changed in the last few years. The Union is now beginning to be what its donor wanted it to be, an active center of University life and common club of all Harvard...
...exhibition of documents illustrating student life in former days is included in the new display in the Treasure Room and in the Widener room in Widener Library...
Included also in the present display are several examples of recent accessions of the library...
Poor men, living by rote, and coddled in all the conveniences which civilization has perfected to make country life tolerable and city life pleasant, are unfamiliar with the forces of Nature, and abashed by any display of the power that throws down telephone poles like jackstraws, cracks huge sewer pipes, and keeps the electric light from turning...
...fieldmarshal's uniform was promptly ordered for King Vittorio Emanuele. Thus militantly attired, he was scheduled to give the bride away at "a ceremony to be celebrated in strict solemnity in the private chapel of the royal castle at Racconigi. . . . The celebration will end . . . with a fireworks display...