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Community Book Shop has received from abroad and from markets in this country a number of exceptionally beautiful volumes. The titles are standard, there is not a freak book in the shop...
Playing a slow game that momentarily became slower as the temperature fell, the University nine nosed out the Connecticut Agricultural College team 6 to 5 on Soldiers Field yesterday afternoon. The game while close was dispirited and marred by freak runs...
...annual report of Dr. Henry S. Pritchett, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, continues to repay adventurous excavators. It has been discovered that he said, apropos of freak " special " courses in the public schools: " If the demands of the schools continue to increase at the present rate, the inability of society to pay the cost must bring about radical curtailments...
...making of "freak" wills has become a common proceeding. Old persons of large fortune and eccentric taste are heard of daily who have left behind them, when they departed this life, some charitable gift to be administered in its own peculiar way. In one newspaper yesterday, at least two such cases offered news for Sunday readers. The first was of a Marblehead resident whose will provided a fund, the income from which should be divided annually among the fathers of twins born in the town during that year. The other was the bequest of a wealthy New York woman, whose...
...other sources of artificial light. By some, it is supposed to be a humerous tendency of a dying race. By others, it is heralded as the first delicate development of actual thought in individuals long-buried in the slough of wit. By this last definition, it is a freak to the encouraged. Students of Harvard, we have here an unsurpassed opportunity ot practise that Christmas spirit; to herald this hybrid bug as a true struggler toward the light of more serious endeavor! KEITH MACKAYR...