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...Woodstock will enter upon its second season next July. The purpose of the colony is to offer opportunity for a frank discussion of the most obvious and recurring dilemmas of modern civilization. It is run under the suspires of the National Student Forum, of which the Harvard Lib earl Club is a branch...
...family rose and fell with her. Her father, the Earl of Wiltshire, whose title was the reward of the combined ambitions of his daughter and himself, was "spared the ignominy of serving on the jury" that condemned her to death shortly after the like fate of her brother Rockfort, who had died for the most sufficient reason that Henry desired his definite removal...
...bank finally came into possession of the Earls of Jersey through two elopements. The tenth Earl of Westmoreland ran away with Banker Child's daughter, married at Gretna Green and inherited the bank. Their daughter followed suit by eloping with the young Earl of Jersey, and ever since the family has had a dominant interest in Child & Co. The eighth Earl of Jersey, who died last December, was its senior partner, and in accordance with his will the venerable institution will be absorbed by the larger private bank of Glyn, Mills...
...there is balm for the broken spirited, in spite of it all. A mere up-start who wins his way to the proud title of duke pays for his vanity o ver thirteen thousand dollars, so that the belted earl whose coronet has come down from father to son through dim and distant generations can comfort himself with the reflection that the ambitious climber is charged a pretty penny for his purple. In fact so steep is the price that many honest laboring men find it more advantageous to refuse glittering but costly honors, and remain unadorned but wealthy members...
...Earl Brown, the left-handed twirler whose wildness marred his showing in the Columbia game, is Coach Slattery's choice for mound duty this afternoon. The Crimson director feels that Brown has more on the ball than any other of his pitchers and he expects his control to improve with action. Columbia found him practically unhitable, and but for his wildness and his teammate's errors, the result might well have been reversed...