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Sirs: I have always thought it rather petty to catch up TIME'S reporting of details when they slip on a most insignificant point. However I realize that it may not be the fact that TIME is wrong that prompts many of the letters, but a sincere desire to give information which they chance to have...
...most detailed description of the bells which our story brought forth comes from Mr. Frederic W. Swift, of Leverett House, so if it's wrong, write him. He says there are fifteen bells, four of which are attached to a stick which is held in the right hand and jiggled; nine others are attached by a complicated system of wires and pulleys to nine chains which are worked separately by the left hand; the fourteenth is worked by the right foot, and it takes two men to operate the fifteenth, and largest. "The usual procedure," relates Mr. Swift...
...conditions of the present civilization. But it is not too much to expect, and it is almost an essential to continued existence, that something of those principles of sincerity, steadfastness, and of courage, which are found in the country may be transplanted in the city. There is something wrong with a civilization which forces twenty men in a single October afternoon to jump out of tall buildings because a stock fell ten points. It is a lack of any values, principles, of standards which can be relied upon when monetary support has been withdrawn...
...idle jest. But he is used to the indiscretion of youth, he knows how they speak in the wrath of the moment and he will pardon them. If they seek not pardon it matters little, he will go on writing whether or no. He will continue to get times wrong, to get places mixed, to misspell the names of professors. Technicalities are not for the majestic corridors of his soul. Harvard was made for the Vagabond to do as he liked with, not the Vagabond for Harvard. If you gentlemen do not tread lightly likely as not he will pack...
Ignored by the British editors of Who's Who is Mr. Sidney W. Pascall. The editors are wrong, for Mr. Sidney W. Pascall is a potent international figure, first European President of Rotary International. Last week Rotarian Pascall sailed from Southampton with his wife and Daughter Joan for a triumphal tour of the world. Only a few days before he had returned to Britain from a 15,000-mile tour of the Rotary Clubs of the U. S. "I was treated like a reigning monarch," said he, "and each Rotary Club I went to gave me something to remember...