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...refused the invitation to the mountains; I corrected two hundred papers over the weekend, themes, grammar tests, and spelling. When I returned them to the morning class, 'Brick' chucked his into the wastebasket with a 'Gee, somebody spilled the red ink!' How to make them care! . . . Miss Skelton teaches chemistry; she is a faithful worker for the Y. W. C. A. Mr. Mince tips his hat to her every morning; I've seen her flush at his audacity. Sometime I'm going to lock them in the Study Hall and compromise them...
...that we hesitated to utter it. Investigation shows us that others believe as we do, namely, that the cough cannot always be controlled. Yet you will find dogmatic persons in robust health who insist it can be controlled. That assertion we deny with all the emphasis of ten-point ink. Some coughs are unnecessary. Others are unavoidable...
...brief hold-up occurred over hexamethylenetetramine (derivative of formaldehyde and ammonia used in medicine and vulcanized rubber) when Generalissimo Smoot could not pronounce it. Ink rates fell suddenly with a great black splash over the regulars. Epsom salts collapsed feebly under the jabbing attack of the Coalition...
Fifteen years ago that continent launched upon a terrible experience. Much ink has been spilt over the military and political phases of the great conflict. Only now are we beginning to realize what a shock was given to Europe's well ordered life apart from the battlefield. That she is recovering is a source of gratification to us. It is Europe that takes almost half of all the goods we sell, besides sending us a third of all we buy. Asia sends us another third. But Europe is always easily first as buyer of our products. She is not only...
...collection is a group of 36 pages from the manuscript of "Pendennis," entirely in the hand-writing of its author, Thackeray. One page contains three original sketches, labeled "George Washington," "General Bonaparte," and one unnamed. There are six original rough and traced sketches, in pencil and pen and ink, of illustrations to "Pendennis," all by Thackeray...