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...diphtheria antitoxin to Nome in 1925. It was a gift, a new Northeastern mascot, from Dog-driver Leonhard Seppala. Driver Seppala was present. He and the dog rode on a float from the station, with co-ed attendants. The blither spirits of Boston University (enrollment: 10,979) took a leaf from Harvard's book of etiquet and saluted the Northeastern parade with showers of eggs, ice, vegetables;. The Northeasterners did not retaliate. . . . Accepting the Husky-dog, whose team-leader, Balto, has lately been on view in a Los Angeles dime museum "for men only" (TIME, Feb. 28), President Speare...
...iron and iron kentledge, the President raised the tariff from 75c to $1.12½ a ton; on gold leaf, from 55c to 82½c per 100 leaves. Meanwhile, last week the U. S. Court of Customs Appeals upheld the flexible Tariff Act of 1922 which authorizes the President to raise or lower the tariff within limits...
...folk-consciousness not only by its bumbling name but by appropriate industry. That its industry might reap greater rewards, it last week (in the person of Publisher Nelson B. Updike) bought out and absorbed its chief competitor, the Omaha Daily News, 28-year-old member of the Clover Leaf Syndicate...
...really", said Jones. And he wrote an erratum on the fly leaf...
...with notes in the owner's hand. This volume is the gift of Mrs. Norton Perkins in memory of Norton Perkins '98. Apparently the author of "The Ancient Mariner" shared in some degree the modern schoolboy's dislike for the Latin language, for we find inscribed on the fly leaf: "Heaven forbid! This work should not exist in its present form and language! Yet I cannot avoid the wish that it had been, during the reign of James the first, moulded into an heroic poem in English Octava Rima...