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Aside from the statistics given by Mr. upon the value of comparison between casualties in air service, which are almost always fatalities, and casualties on railroads, which are seldom fatalities, will, I think, be of interest...
...machinery of government is often halted while the chief executive of the State lays a corner stone; but it is very seldom that a busy governor can spare ten minutes of the people's time to write a personal letter of encouragement to a small and unknown invalid. That is what Governor Fuller has done, however, and it is safe to say that little Eddie O'Neil of Attleboro will treasure till his dying hour the card and note that reached him on his fifth birthday...
...according to a Boston paper of that date "brought forth shouts of applause" from the audience. Officially named on the elaborate program as "A Comic Opera in Two Acts" the show made so great a hit that the "Herald" on the following day came out with the statement that "seldom has the Wellesley world roused itself to keener enjoyment and heartier abandonment than that of last evening...
...there is any mortal whose lot no mortal need envy, it is that of Mr. Nicholas Murray Butler. The honored president of Columbia University can seldom stir from its portals without arousing a storm of reviling quite incommensurate with the strength of his opinions. His latest mishap along the road of liberal salvation is named "The Faith of a Liberal", and what a whirlwind of scarn and opposition it has blown up! His liberalism is satirized, his progressiveness denied, and all his past is dragged forth "to affright his eyes...
Scores of students who have seldom been inside the Dining Hall, have decided to take advantage of their last opportunity to eat in the historic commons, which will close its doors on Saturday evening after 50 years of service...