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...presidency of the University was vacated by the resignation of President Hill. The nomination of Hill's successor lay with six gentlemen who were the remaining members of the corporation, but before they could act it was necessary for the Overseers to pass a vote consenting that the Corporation proceed to the election of a new president. After the Corporation should have chosen some one in particular, the University statutes would again leave the matter to the Board of Overseers, requiring from it a vote of concurrence...
...this instance the Overseers did not consent that the Corporation should proceed to an election until February 25. They appointed a committee to confer with the Corporation about the definition of the president's duties and continued an inconclusive discussion of that question. It is difficult to explain this delay of nearly five months except on the theory that the Overseers were disturbed by a sense of impending change and a feeling of uncertainty. Questions of policy were implicitly bound up with the selection of the new president, and it could certainly be said that the issues were numerous...
...Packard, the unscrupulous business man, self-made, of course, who continually remains the audience that his bad manners are traceable to the Montana mining camp. There is his wife, a check-room girl, beautiful, cheap, pampered, dumb, who is the cynosure in the boudoir scene. Then the authors proceed to fill out the play with servant side. The villainous, sleek chauffeur, Ricci, the apex of the triangle completed by Dora, and Gustave, whose continental manners embroll the kitchen in a melee with the carving set, which ruins the lobster aspic, the piece de resistance of the dinner. There...
...bitterest physical discomfort does not seem to shake, and realize that the prosperity, so-called, of the past decade was a mushroom growing out of a rotten stump. And only when they realize that the stump must be brought level with the earth can the lasting work of reconstruction proceed. --The Dartmouth...
Warning?Line Ripped Up and Mined in Several Places?Down With the Prince of Wales?The Train Must Not Proceed or It Will Be Fired...