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...Government announced some time ago that it would decorate with the Order of Agricultural Merit, disrespectfully termed the "Order of the Leek," all those who could produce documentary evidence proving that their families had farmed the same land continuously for at least three centuries. This brought forth about 750 families with the necessary qualifications, the record being held by the La Fargues of Coutie near Moliéres,, who have lived on the same estate since 772, or two years after Charlemagne had succeeded his father as ruler of the entire Prankish monarchy...
George M. Cohan, fond of Irish names, has brought forth another, The Rise of Rose O'Reilly, soon to immigrate into Manhattan...
...student living in the doctor's house, and by Ottavio, a gentleman of Padua. Florindo's timidity, however, prevents him from declaring his love except by indirect methods. He causes Rosaura to be serenaded by hired musicians, sends her, anonymously, a gift of lace; and composes a poem setting forth his love, but containing only vague hints of his identity. Instead of handing her the verses himself, he throws them on her balcony...
Admitting that what Laertius wrote of Socrates--"He said that there was one only good, namely, knowledge; and one only evil, namely, ignorance"--is a fair creed for a university, how is an undergraduate to achieve that "one only good" and drive forth evil ignorance in the brief span of seventeen or eighteen courses? He is likely either to become so bewildered as to gain practically no knowledge, or to specialize so narrowly as to drive forth ignorance only in one field. The innovation of the Science Symposiums, the second of which will be held tonight, is an undoubted...
...species of charlatan earning a living by making giggling girls jump. In view of this wide-spread "he-man" contempt of such stories "authorized by a grandam", it is surprising that Professor MacDougall received as many as six hundred replies out of the fifteen hundred questionnaires which he sent forth...