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...Grace, the Bishop of London...
...Grace, the Bishop of London and members of the Harvard Faculty will speak at the week-day morning services at 8.45 o'clock in Appleton Chapel at the University during the first and fourth weeks of the college year beginning with this morning's service when Professor Robert DeC Ward '89, chairman of the Board of Freshman Advisers addresses the students...
...English will indeed take almost anything from Winston Churchill with relatively good grace. As a young man, just returned on leave from overseas service, he once exuberantly climbed a pillar in one of London's most fashionable music halls and demanded cheers for the ladies of pleasure to be found in the lobby. Theirs were, he said, the only breasts on which a roving English soldier's head was always sure of comfort and repose...
...smoking a cigaret when he landed at the Tempelhoffer field, Berlin, but at once obeyed with good grace the peremptory and officious command of an ordinary policeman: "Put out the cigaret! You can't smoke on this aviation field...
Most amazing was her attitude towards her boy, Robert, and through him, towards society. She marked his birthdays as day of special grace for her. She let him wander naked, and herself too, beneath "the unastonished trees." Socrates, she felt, and many another sage, would have approved; her contemporaries "would rather face their God with naked souls than naked bodies," being disease-ridden, blotched and misshapen. She freed her boy from fear of the dark and the forest. She resolved, in one of the old fashioned phrases so fresh on her pen, to urge him out of the nest that...