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...most interesting bits of the Society's work while Professor Palmer was president, was connected with Mr. Jones, the bell-ringer, who performed his duties without missing a single day. Many attempts were made by students to thwart him, but he managed to supply an extra clapper, or to break out the ice in the bell, or do whatever else was necessary. When the bell became cracked, he asked the University to sell it to him and it was given to him as a token of his services. He kept it in his house for some years, until the Memorial...
...Shameen (foreign section of Canton), were five British gunboats, two French and one Portuguese warships. French bluejackets were landed and occupied the post office without resistance. The men were landed there to thwart Dr. Sun in case he decided to resort to force and to protect the foreign population...
...inaugurated the third Monday in January. Thus the new President and Congress come into power almost simultaneously, and as someone expressed it: "The will of the people as evinced by the elections does not have to sit cooling its heels while the retiring administration does all it can to thwart...
...theatre, a fact which only visitors to Cambridge ever remark on. Technical difficulties connected with the endowment there may be; but nothing that so faithfully and ardently serves art and humanity as does the 47 Workshop can for a moment be held to twist the literal significance or to thwart the fundamental purpose of a museum. W. C. HOLBROOK...
...syllabus represents the epitome of "knowledge served on a silver platter." By its use, the average undergraduate can temporarily absorb and entire term's work in three hours and, entrenched in this manner, successfully thwart the parries of the most despotic "prof." With the examination past history hew can then seek new learning in another field, entirely unhampered by a brain loaded with other ideas. And thus the four years pass most enjoyably. --Daily Princetonian...