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...that note touched me very much. It expressed the youth's feeling at the sight of the veteran in a conflict into which the youth is going,--where the veteran has long been. That note is one of the most precious of the testimonies that I have received. And yesterday, at a family gathering, a lady handed to me a note which she said that a lady in Boston had asked her to deliver. I opened it and there was not a word in it,--not one,--only a leaf. But that leaf was laurel...
...issue in a close contest. Besides these, several thousand qualified voters are registered in the different universities and colleges as graduate or undergraduate students, yet it is an undoubted and regrettable fact, that a considerable proportion of the New York college graduates never exercise the suffrage, that most precious and least irksome of civic functions. To persuade these college-bred citizens to register and vote; to make plain to them the magnitude of the issue and the value of the individual; to supply them with all necessary information about the election law and the forms to be observed by voters...
...calls on Roger for assistance. Roger, however, is secretly presuaded by Sthu to join him in making an ear and gaining the throne. Cass, meanwhile, much worried by the stir the theft has caused, gladly makes use of an opportunity unexpectedly presented to give his half of the precious object to Princess Gara, daughter of the rajah...
...from the Peabody Museum and will be ready for the dedication exercises by the beginning of next week. In addition to the collections which were formerly exhibited in the Peabody Museum the Semitic Museum has recently acquired an interesting collection of Palestinian glassware and elaborate jewelry of silver and precious stones which have never before been on exhibition...
...contents include besides the human remains, various kinds of pottery, stone vessels, and amulets made of gold or some kinds of precious stones. The skeleton remains are in most cases intact, and in some of the graves perfectly preserved bodies have been found. In the earlier dynasties, the bodies are buried facing towards the west with the knees drawn up close to the body, while in the fifth and sixth dynasties the bodies invariably face to the east and lie more fully extended...