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Attention is called to the fact that additions have been made to the list of approved topics in the manuscript book at the library...
Attention is called to the fact that additions have been made to the list of approved topics in the manuscript book at the library...
...told in one of the Swiss villages among the Alps, to the effect that the great Julius stopped there on his way to interview the mighty man of the Helvetii, and it was noticed that the great statesman never raised his eyes throughout his stay from an ancient manuscript, which rumor said had been sent to him from Alexandria. Many were the conjectures as to the nature of the writing. At last an old peasant ventured to approach the reader and gaze over his shoulder. These words, in Caesar's own hand, met his eye, "The Gods confound...
...draw a large audience. Last night Sever 11 was crowded with an audience which was highly entertained by the lecturer's sketch of the beginnings of California. The amusing features of the early occupation of the state were touched upon very humorously. The lecture, which was read from manuscript, lasted about an hour and a quarter...
...what it is doesn't matter. The main object is to have some freshly written pages on the table. When this is accomplished the adventurer stealthily unbuttons his coat, and at a favorable moment draws his "cribbed" papers from his bosom and pushes them in among the mass of manuscript before him. When this is done the rest of his task is easy. He picks up the list of questions and with the aid of his cribs answers such of them as he can, and when the examination is ended hands in his answers to the waiting professors and coolly...