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...other name) Connelly, the traveling nuisance who crashes gates and whose solitary optic is glaucous, lurked by the ringside. Amid such distinguished company he had wished to appear at his best, and, for perhaps the first time in his life, wore a dinner jacket, white gloves, carried a cane. Also, over his non-existent eye, he wore a monocle. The unfortunate thing was that, having scaled the heights of sartorial formality, "One Eye" found that almost all the other gentlemen present were wearing white flannels, dark blue coats...
...Francisco financial circles were last week agitated over the decision of the San Francisco Grain Trade Association to establish a securities trading department. Inasmuch as San Francisco already has a Stock Exchange, a Curb and a Mining Exchange, it might appear that San Franciscans have already ample opportunity to play the market. So rapidly is the main Exchange growing, indeed, that Coast authorities claim it has passed Chicago and ranks as the second largest U. S. board. The Grain Trade Association, nevertheless, despite the opposition of its parent body, the Chamber of Commerce, has decided to organize an additional trading...
...publisher can question the advertiser's word concerning the legitimacy of testimonials and it is even more difficult to imagine how the reading public can tell whether a testimonial represents a donation or a purchase. From the standpoint of popular faith in advertising it would appear that one rotten testimonial apple would corrupt the entire barrel and that the distinction between good and bad testimonials will become as tenuous as the now somewhat archaic distinction between "good" and "bad" trusts. It is likely, however, that Mr. Kendall and his associates are interested primarily in the moral effect of their...
...Religion remains today, what it always has been, the chief influence over men's lives. Thirty-six thousand people in the Boston Garden last Sunday, with thousands turned away, to hear a simple sermon on the gospel of Jesus Christ would appear to prove this conclusively...
Thirty men delivered selections yesterday afternoon in the trials for the Lee Wade and Boylston prize speaking competition. Although the ten speakers who will appear in the finals on April 3, are to be chosen on yesterday's showing, Professor F. C. Packard Jr. '20 has not yet announced their names...