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...decoration of the third order, Medijieh, from the Sultan of Turkey. Mr. Smith took an active part in the recent excavations in Egypt and has lately been working in Japan. Recently he has devoted much of his time to lecturing throughout the country, and to those who are fond of travel, his lecture should prove particularly interesting...
...support of the Faculty and its is proposed to have it sing on Commencement and Class Days and also to give concerts in the Union throughout the winter months. The aim of the organizers of the chorus is to interest a large number of men who are fond of singing rather than to limit the membership to a very few whose vocal qualifications are exceptional...
...another that their fathers are compelled to tell them the truth. Then they separate, and Percinet sets out into the world to seek adventure. Bergamin and Pasquinot, thrown into too close intimacy, soon grow tired of one another's company, and quarrel, but when Percinet returns, with his fond illusions shattered, matters arrange themselves to the satisfaction...
...memory stocked with facts, however valuable such a storehouse may be. In his farewell address to the alumni of Dartmouth President Tucker remarked that "the college is in the educational system to represent the spirit of amateur scholarship. College students are amateurs, not professionals." Or, as President Hadley is fond of putting it, "The ideal college education seems to me to be one where a student learns things that the is not going to use in after life, by methods that he is going to use. The former element gives the breadth, the latter element gives the training...
...pence. If he can't do one thing he does another. If he can't row he tries cricket or Rugby, or association, or hockey, or lacrosse, or track athletics, or something else. He doesn't suck his thumbs or sit and holler "Oxford!" "Oxford!" He is fond of exercise, a couple of hours of it every day and he will have it. The result of this is he is always having or preparing for a game or a tussle of some sort and he never has an attack of nerves when the tussle is going on or after...