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...crowd grew, and with the arrival of the chief Yard cop some sort of systematic investigation began. Careful inquiries established the following story as authentic...
Section III of the report presents a plan for the subdivision of Harvard College into colleges. "In the old days before Harvard grew to such mammoth proportions eating in commons brought students together. It was fashionable at that time to dine in Memorial Hall, and in consequence all students in the College shared the opportunity of healthy social intercourse and a stimulating interchange of ideas. But in time the club system grew up and the clubs opened their own dining rooms. Memorial Hall ceased to be fashionable. Moreover, the College faced about and headed toward the river, so that Memorial...
...born 67 years ago in the very heart of the Breton peninsula and of parents so close to the soil that they did not even speak French-a language still regarded as unmelodious and effete by the simple Breton woodcutters and charcoal burners among whom M. le Braz grew up. At ten years of age he was sent to school at Saint-Brieuc, and progressed with commendable swiftness to a degree at the Sorbonne. After seven years of university work in Paris, he returned to Brittany, to an old manor house at Quimper, where he often welcomed the local peasantry...
...trial. Since the newly-discovered evidence on which the appeal was based had been held in reserve as their strongest point by the defense attorneys, its rejection means that Chapman's greatest hope has been lashed. Three stays of execution had been granted because of the mere technicality which grew out of Chapman's being a federal prisoner, and it was a curious bit of irony, that the more convincing plea prepared at the last minute should thus be so abruptly dismissed...
...original plan of Harvard college it faced west, being opposite Massachusetts Hall. The ground behind it, which is now the College Yard, was at that time nothing more than a cow pasture. As the yard grew up, however, and the tendency in new buildings was to face into it, the old entrance to Holden Chapel was changed to the east side...