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...becoming more and more obvious that Horatio Alger was born long before his time. This ingenious concocter of a better class of dime novels furnished vicarious thrills by mere inherited dukedoms and paltry thousands of dollars--and no doubt shuddered to think what an exaggerator he was. But the Luke Larkins of his fiction are simply run off their feet by the financial leaders of this...
...Alger Hiss 21, chairman of the Council, will preside at the meeting. Throughout the year the Council has met once a month to discuss questions of international interest, treating international law, prohibition, disarmament, and similar problems...
...Chairman of the Council is Alger Hess 21, Thirty-three countries, including the United States, France, England, Germany, Italy and Russia will be represented. All members of the University are invited to attend the meeting...
...chosen from the second year class are: Herman Thomas Austern, New York University '26, of New York; Nathan Allen Cobb, Bowdoin '26, of Portland, Me.; Richard Hinckley Field '26, of Phillips, Me.; Solomon Fishman, College of the City of New York '26, of New York; Alger Hiss, Johns Hopkins University '26, of Baltimore, Md.; David Miller, University of Texas '26, of Mineral Wells, Texas; Edward Cockrain McLean, Williams '24, of Hoosick Falls, N. Y.; Leon Pressman, Cornell '26, of Brooklyn, N. Y.; Howard Heath Rapp '26, of Broomall, Pa.; Harry Shulsky, New York University '26, of New York; Bernard Soman...
...works of Honore de Balzac fill 40 volumes, comprising 116 titles. Anatole France filled 40 volumes. Horatio Alger published 57 full-length stories. Robert Louis Stevenson's works occupy 32 volumes; the 43 titles by Charles Dickens, 20 volumes...