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...Stevenson of Princeton Theological Seminary, Professor John Livingston Lowes of Harvard, Peter Moore Speer, vice president and general counsel of Standard Oil Co. of N. Y., the late Episcopal Bishop Coadjutator David Hummell Greer of New York, the late Senator Matthew Stanley Quay of Pennsylvania. W. & J. students are fond of virile gear such as corduroys and sturdy boots. Most of them like their new President Hutchison because, though he has no hobbies, no sports, he shows an earnest, agreeable interest in their games. In recent college elections the non-fraternity students won a sweeping victory. President Hutchison, a Sigma...
Ambassador Edge had more than an official interest in the embargo. He is heartily fond of greens. Objecting to the pale and bloated asperge blanche of France, he imports his own green asparagus from New Jersey. The Ambassador frequently chomps in Paris a crisp U. S. apple. Last week 500 tons of such apples, valued at $100,000, lay on the docks at Havre, kept out of the country as suspected carriers of the pernicious San José scale (TIME, March...
...Fond of our prison and our clay...
Part of Carlyle's will reads "Having with good reason, ever since my first appearance in Literature a variety of kind feelings obligations and regards towards New England. I have now . . . decided to fulfill a fond notion that has been hovering in my mind these many years, and I do therefore hereby bequeath the books which I used in writing on Cromwell and Friedrich to the President and Fellows of Harvard College, City of Cambridge State of Massachusetts, as a poor testimonial of my respect for that alma mater of so many of my Trans-Atlantic friends...
...Harry Hamilton and Norman Foster would have you believe voodooism is still rife. Savage Rhythm has to do with a black girl named Miss Orchid, who has come home from a big theatrical success on Broadway. The Negro she chooses happens to be one her Sister Florabel is also fond of. Thereupon Florabel picks another man, an unfortunate choice because the other man's wife stabs Florabel. Then follow some of the liveliest obsequies to be seen on the stage since Porgy. Miss Orchid drops her city ways.succumbs to the ancestral voodoo call, turns into a priestess. That part...