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Whatever may be said or thought about Houses and scraps of paper, one thing is certain: if the bill becomes a law certificates of citizenship will become as precious as manuscript editions. At least it is an additional persuasive reason for becoming an American citizen...
Most Americans go to Oxford, and that seems to me all the more reason why the opportunity of going to Cambridge is the more precious. An American who goes to an English university does so to associate, for a period, with the English rather than with his own countrymen. The position occupied by Oxford and Cambridge in England is absolutely equal, although Oxford is the better known in America because of her Rhodes Scholars. There is no Americans in Cambridge--for Americans in Cambridge during 1920-21 vigorously opposed the formation of one--and consequently any American in residence...
...that many parts of this collection of humorous articles have appeared in Punch is to pay tribute not so much to their exceptional quality as to the excellent critical judgment of that most precious of all periodicals...
...probation. Rearrested the same year, he was released on bail. Thus he has been twice stimulated to go on with his virtue. Parole, suspended sentence, probation, bail, easy discharge, all the bounties, so to speak, for the commission of crime, were offered to these precious innocents. These are instructive, but milk-mild, cases of that beneficent justice that spares the criminal and despoils the public. The police records are full of much more striking cases. Possibly this quick-forgetting community still remembers Hoey, the paroled convict from Sing Sing out on bail, who murdered Patrolman Neville. Possibly it will remember...
...size and more compact than those of the newspaper. These also proved to contain writing when subjected to the water test. As we had difficulty in entering this building, which was in the nature of a cell, we came to the conclusion that it was a storehouse either for precious documents or for matter which had been banned and stored away from the public eye under lock and key. The material in the documents, which took the form of small tracts or pamphlets, made the latter explanation seem the more plausible. No doubt this had been the office...