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Mayor Hylan has diplomatically turned out the gas before the teapot housing New York's tempest reached the boiling point. "I make it a policy in my administration," said the Mayor-so, parenthetically, we learn that the administration has one-"never to interfere with the ladies-for they will do as they please, anyway." What boots a pseudo-city-ordinance or two when it interferes with the ladies' pleasure?-the pleasure in the case being a soothing cigarette...
...worst of the little tempest in Boston's financial teapot is over. With the assumption by the state of the seventh bank in months to close its doors, and the announcement by three more of a moratorium delaying withdrawals of savings deposits for ninety days, the course of unthinking panic seems to have been allayed. The gradual return to sanity will now offer an opportunity for grave reflection...
JAMES W. GLOVER,94 Hammond street.LOST. - On Friday morning, on Sparks street, Huron avenue, Cambridge street, or Harvard square, a small gold watch and short chain to which were attached, as ornaments, a silver ball, a gold teapot, and a silver pencil. Reward offered for its return to 67 Sparks street...
...recent commotion at Vassar seems to have been but a "tempest in a teapot," notwithstanding the reports which have been heralded abroad to the contrary. A small occurrence, dragged into prominence by a few newspapers, has naturally been magnified far beyond its proper proportions. The gist of the whole matter is simply this, that the present system of conferring honors is considered by many of the students to be unjust, since it frequently permits those to obtain honors who are not considered by the college to have earned them. This led to a mild kind of a revolt, which...
...accommodations; but the course is three miles away from the city, and, if the race is not rowed towards the city, the finish will be six miles away, and there is nothing but a carriage-road leading to the lake. There is no steamer, but just such a little teapot as one of those at Springfield this year, which can never keep up with the crews. It has deep water and no current, which are great advantages; but, considering that it is so far out of the way of the New England colleges, we are led to look back again...