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...rest of us may profit by their example. Our business men could perhaps be lured to the White House by a symphony concert, the House of Lords may soon be opening its deliberations with a performance of "The Mikado", and all political speeches made in the style of Artemus Ward. Before long statesmanship will consist in perpetual conferring at attractively situated resorts. The nine Muses bid fair to make a complete conquest of the seven great Powers...
...room 59, "Bumble Bee," G. G. Monks; Thayer, 60, "John L. Mapes," G. L. Van Bergen; Thayer 63, "E. W. White," E. Low, F. Winsor, Jr., room 64, "J. Carder," J. M. Bransten; room 65, "John Smith," W. H. Bieringer; room 66, "Doc Bray,"--C. F. Berry; room 67, "Artemus Ward,"--R. I. Lindsey; T. M. Brown; room 3-4, 7-8, "Sub-Debs," W. J. Means, O. C. Stamper, D. W. Bailey, A. S. Ellsworth, R. B. Hamblett, F. J. Robinson, W. L. Cummings R. L. Bronson; room 6, "El Buey," R. C. Stuart, Jr; room 9-10, "Henrietta...
...idleness," and the diminishing consumption of cigarettes may mean that Harvard less faithfully answers the often quoted definition of the visiting Chinese savant who wrote, "They have a large athletic club here named Harvard. On days when it rains the students read books"; or the famous description of Artemus Ward that Harvard College was "pleasantly located in the bar-room of Parker's." Life in time may become as rigorous as it was when the snow filtered through the roof of Massachusetts Hall, ice was cracked for matutinal ablutions and beer and soggy biscuits were the breakfast food. The declining...
...Artemus Lamb Gates, Yale 1918, of Clinton, Iowa, was elected captain of the Yale football team for 1917, by a unanimous vote in accordance with custom...
...Martha Pondsby, his daughter, N. B. Dee '11 Mary, a maid, H. R. Morse '12 Mrs. Henrietta Saxon Wells, G. S. Phenix '12 Juliet Marlowe Wells, her daughter, P. C. Squire '11 Hunting Wells, her son, E. R. Kimball '11 Mollicule Hepsipah Kennedy, M. S. Robbins '12 Artemus Poindexter Hopper, J. S. Hutchinson '13 Jed Nevins, W. H. Heywood '12 Timothy Sullivan, J. L. Hannan '12 Chief Shoota-Da-Plock, J. G. B. Perkins '11 Wachoo, F. O. Bergquist uC. Seluta, E. R. Kimball '11 Ravenhead, N. B. Dee '11 Leon Opper, N. F. Coburn '11 Mazie, a soubrette...