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...story of a Norwegian of many aliases, a strange lad who wanders through the countryside impersonating now a preacher, now a young actor, now a decrepit bank messenger-a "long procession of persons, created by himself, and every one of them fleeing before the police." Sometimes he grew anxious for their safety. And the reader assuredly grows dizzy. Bojer has a graphic, stark style, a trick of creating atmosphere in a single sentence...
...President submitted to the Senate the name of Hugh Gibson (Minister to Poland) to be made Minister to Switzerland, succeeding Joseph C. Grew recently made Under Secretary of State. This is merely a continuation of the round of promotions which began when Ambassador Richard Washburn Child resigned from his post at Rome...
...Gibson takes Crew's post in Switzerland, Grew takes Phillips' place in Washington as Under Secretary of State, Phillips takes Fletcher's post in Belgium, Fletcher takes Child's in Italy. (TIME, March...
...known as the modern side; the substitution of written for oral examinations and of lectures for recitations. In the administration of discipline a greater degree of liberty and responsibility was granted to the student, and entrance to the college was guarded by higher standards of admission. Meanwhile Harvard grew from one thousand students to five thousand: twenty million dollars were added to its endowment; and a New England college became a cosmopolitan university...
...good time he was graduated. He went to Boston, taught bicycle riding. Then he became editor of the Wheelman, a bicycle paper. He went to New York and started a fiction "syndicate." Finally, in 1893, at 37, he started a magazine. It grew. In two and a half years its circulation was greater than Century, Harper's or Scribner's. That is how the world came to know Samuel Sidney McClure...