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When Cecil Rhodes established his endowment to enable a select group of American young men to study at Oxford, he set up a greater claim to the gratitude of posterity than he had done by all his brilliant achievement as an empire builder in South Africa: That endowment was a modest beginning. It had nothing of the popular glamor of a Cape to Cairo project, but it was of great significance to the future progress of the world...
...Passed a bill creating a commission to select and sell such models from the Patent Office as are not likely to be of historical value. Care of old models has cost the Government about $200,000 in the last 30 years. (Went to Senate...
...find a friendly confident guide through the mazes of Widener would be a splendid boon to the incoming Freshman, and no less to busy upper classmen who have so little time to experiment on strange volumes. In his special field of study the student soon becomes competent to select authors for himself. In the departments of his "distribution" he is also possessed of some kind of compass. But unless his education has gone far beyond that of the average undergraduate all else is an uncharted sea. To have friendly access to a humanist who would pilot him past the shoals...
...Riviera have been found passe, blase, blafard--that is to say "not in it"--compared with New York. In fact, there has been such a tremendous increase in the traveling nobility of Europe in recent years that one can no longer get the satisfaction of belonging to a select minority. The old stamping grounds of royalty have been literally ruined by too much competition. The surfeited European now yawns at sight of a duke: there are so many of them...
...genial 64-year-old Dutchman, is now visiting the U. S. He is sprightly, small, with a small grey beard, small grey mustache, wears in his countenance the alert and boyish shyness peculiar to men who have spent their lives probing into the physical mysteries of humanity. To a select company of surgeons in Manhattan he explained his invention...