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...admixture of Irish blood, his philosophy is essentially, exceedingly English. To play the game, to accept one's fate and carry on-these are the "fiery particles" that compose the unvarying pattern of his thought. The present volume of posthumously published short stories falls short of grade-A Montague. Nevertheless it holds to the pattern. The title story concerns a middle-aged Manchester merchant who is threatened with paralysis. Determined not to live in half measures and die a lingering death, he hurries to Switzerland while his resolution is still high, there to climb his favorite mountain...
...Still, I never went to college myself, and I don't regret it. I never went beyond the fourth grade, and they had to burn the school down to get me out then...
...would fill in the present gap between Bay State Road and Otter St. The new drive would pass under the arches of the Harvard and Longfellow bridges and would thus give a continuous road which, after crossing Cambridge St., Brighton, at the end of the River St. bridge at grade, will have no other crossing at grade until it reaches the 'end of the Charles River Dam where it connects with Nashua St., which is now being widened. This is a clear run of nearly four miles without danger to pedestrians who are fenced out of the drive. The Boston...
...quality of the figures that may cause the more hopeful supporters of the Reading Period qualms of uneasiness. At the end of the first full year under the new system it was announced that the averages of the A, B, and high C, men were bettered and the lower grade men somewhat lowered. One would expect the proofs of the continuance of this tendency to be found in the Dean's List enrollment, for dealing as it does with a much smaller number it is more sensitive to changes affecting these upper strata of the student body than the more...
Finally, Editor Kendall put Advertising & Selling back of the anti-testimonial movement with an editorial cheering for the Hollister suggestion that high grade publishers should ban the bought testimonial...