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...Sagesse.' It is also signed to the manuscript assignment to Jacob Tonson and John Watts of his rights as author of the 'Fables' and the 'Beggar's Opera,' dated February 6, 1727. The poet's signature is not easy to find, but infinitely scarcer is that of 'L. Bolton' the Duchess of Bolton who was once Lavinia Fenton, the creator of the part of Polly in the 'Begger's Opera,' and in no small measure responsible for its amazing first...
...meeting were W. C. Boyden '86, H. L. Clark '87, T. W. Slocum '90, M. D. Follansbee '92, Evan Hallister '97, L. P. Marvin '98, Eliot Wadsworth '98, H. S. Dennison '99, D. F. Davis '00, F. L. Higginson '00, James Lawrence '01, J. P. Jones '02, C. C. Bolton '05, John Richardson '08, Mackey Wells '08, J. S. Morgan Jr. '14, and Henry Munroe...
...down the Winooski valley, at Waterbury, Vt., martial law was declared. Many a flood freak had occurred. The 300 inmates of an insane asylum escaped. ... A large house with all lights lit floated by at the first flood midnight.*... A crippled farmer nearly starved in his garret. . . . Hearing that Bolton, downstream village, needed food, a Waterbury undertaker furnished coffins to float a raft, which reached Bolton. . . . A rendering (glue, etc.) factory in the Winooski Valley was offered 3,000 carcasses of drowned dairy cows. . . . Excavators were imperiled by a store of dynamite that floated out of a construction camp...
Such lay questions were answered by Dr. Thaddeus Lincoln Bolton, psychologist at Temple University, Philadelphia, who set Psychologist Aveling right on a minor point besides carrying the Aveling analysis of laughter one illuminating step further. The minor point was: whereas Dr. Aveling supposed hyenas and humans to be the only laughing animals, Dr. Bolton had observed laughter in cows, calves, horses, monkeys; "and the most obvious laughter in the animal kingdom is that...
Concerning the instinctive basis for laughter, Dr. Bolton said: "Laughter is a form of expression denoting the culmination of some conquest or struggle . . . also the expression of a vicarious triumph. ... It is a phenomenon of triumph. . . . What we generally call laughter is the expression of a coarse emotion which, as culture increases, is reformed to the form of a smile. Smiling, therefore, is not the expression of an opposite emotion, as Professor Aveling avers, but simply a refined and secondary development of laughter...