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...fact that the University is opening on time is proof that the danger from the infantile paralysis epidemic in Cambridge is negligible. Were conditions otherwise, neither the medical nor the College authorities would have allowed over five thousand men to assemble today...
...outlook and a certainty in regard to the future of this great war which it would not be possible to gain in any other way. It strengthened me in the belief of the determination of the English nation to pursue the war to complete and conclusive victory, Ample proof was given that the English, rather than the Germans, are the efficient race. The former have raised and equipped an army in two years with a perfection which excels what the latter has been able to do in a decade. The entire equipment of transportation from the munition plants...
After two or three years of controversy, communications, and editorials, the true opinion of undergraduates concerning the Harvard Union will be expressed, it is hoped, in the vote cast, today and tomorrow. The result of this vote should be a final and conclusive proof to the Corporation that the College recognizes the great worth and unquestioned utility of the Union...
...proof sheets of "Underwoods" Stevenson sent to Miss Adelaide Boodle, a woman whom he had always termed throughout his life "game-keeper," for the reason that she lived on his country estate at Bournemouth and acted as its care-taker...
...first of the sheets of proof, which are unbound and at Widener are kept in a packet, he wrote, "Adelaide Boodle, these sheets with the kindest remembrances from Robert Louis Stevenson." Much is in the proofs that does not appear in the published volume. Ten lines of one poem were later dropped bodily for some personal reason of the author. There are two corrections of typographical errors and a number of mis-spelled words that had to be rectified...