Word: accountability
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Life of Napoleon Bonaparte" edited by W. H. Ireland and published in 1823 is illustrated with some of the more conventional work of George Cruikshank, the plates being engraved by him from drawings by other men. The same thing is true of "An Historical Account of the Battle of Waterloo" written by William Mudford Esq. and printed in 1816. This artist is more appealing, however, in what is the most valuable and probably the most interesting work in the display, namely "The Humorist, a Collection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes, Epigrams, Bon Mots, etc., etc." The work is made...
Underground (British Instructional Films, Ltd.) was written and directed by Anthony Asquith, 26, member of an English family which has already done much to entertain the U. S.* Few Asquiths, however, have used their wits as seriously as young Anthony in his account of a London subway guard who falls in love with what Britishers call a shopgirl. A plot, somewhat too complicated for strong drama, includes a rival lover who burns another girl to death against a high-tension switch, and a young wife who (married at last to her subway guard) rides around on the Underground just...
...best newspaper account of the Yale-Princeton game of 1911 reads as follows: "A sensational, spectacular run of 65 yards by 'Sammy' White, Princeton's hero end, who picked up a fumbled ball out of the quagmire gridiron, won the football game for the Tigers against Yale this afternoon. It was the first time Princeton has beaten Yale since 1903. The score...
...Toledo to Chicago) and our southern arm (to St. Louis) nicely connected with three splendid north-and-south railroads. In the East, we should have the Reading and the Jersey Central (25% of whose stock we control anyhow) and the Western Maryland (which we also already control but on account of which some persons are bringing anti-trust proceedings against us). We certainly have to have that Reading to give us secure access to New York. Remember that the New York Central and the Pennsylvania are twice as long as we are and make more money per mile of track...
Funeral services for Edward Edwin Euler '24, instructor in the Department of German, who died Wednesday evening, will be held tomorrow morning at his home, 129 N. Seventh Avenue, Mt. Vernon, New York, Mr. Euler left the University on account of his health before Christmas and went to the South to recuperate...