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Conductor Kennedy was born in Albion, N. Y., but he never met another native of that countryside, born 27 years before, with whose works he was to become so closely associated?the late George M. Pullman. The smile on his long, gentle face will grow shy if you ask him to tell about all the bishops, actresses, pugilists, governors, bankers and U. S. Presidents (all since Grover Cleveland's first term) that he has conducted and known. Off duty he lives in a small house under old elms at Rochester, N. Y. One son is a plumber; another a Baltimore...
...Renown stopped at Kingston, Jamaica (British Colony) last week where the Duke tennissed and laid a cornerstone, and the Duchess reviewed Girl Guides. Together they attended the theatre amid an ovation. Thence the Renown steamed to Panama, where they were saluted by the Albion, yacht of Earl Fitzwilliam and the Four Winds, yacht of British Vice Admiral Sir Guy Gaunt, retired, who wanders eccentrically about the globe with a captain and crew who are Chinese...
...groveling object of royal displeasure is led away to have his hands chopped off, his wrists dipped in boiling oil, his back flayed by a U. S. barbed wire lash. Everywhere the timeless usages of Ethiopia are interwoven stressfully with Occidental permeations. But, like potent and perfidious Albion, the Little Empire "muddles through...
...with a stony countenance rose from his place across the table. He was Albion K. Parris, onetime president of the District of Columbia Society. Glaring at Mr. Hughes and speaking in a voice thickened and knotted with emotion, he told the company how deeply he regretted the aspersions which their honored guest, the novelist, had cast upon a stainless memory. He said that he did not believe that George Washington was immoral. . . . Down the length of the white cloth, angry heads nodded agreement. Nobody was looking at Mr. Hughes now. The men who sat on each side of him pretended...
David A. Wells prizes in Economics were awarded to J. W. Angell '18 of New Haven, Conn., and R. G. Albion A. M. '20 of Portland, Me. The Bowdoin prize for graduates was awarded to W. F. Smith '11 of Lexington...