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...that a recent error of punctuation on its pages should be partially corrected. It declares "the final score stood 3 to 2 for the Lampoon"; but it left out a dash. The sentence would be "The final score stood 3 to 2 for the Lampoon". FELE. G. BOON...
...forbade the teaching of other languages to English-speaking children, its provinciality and bigotry are manifest. This recoiling from all languages except English, while perhaps excusable in war times, was ill-advised then, and now is absurd. The knowledge of two modern languages could be nothing but a boon, and the advantages of having them taught in the elementary schools is obvious...
...wind that blows nobody any good. The unusually severe winter has proved a genuine boon to makers of rubber footwear, as is shown by the encouraging statement of the U.S. Rubber Company, which reports earnings of $2.65 on its common stock...
...McKinlock of Chicago, a fourth Freshman Hall will be built in memory of their son, George Alexander McKinlock Jr. '16, a gallant officer who fell at Beray-le-Sec. on July 21, 1918. We are deeply grateful for this memorial to a brave soldier, which will be an inestimable boon to generations of future students living in the hall that bears his name...
...pity that the celebrities of by-gone days could not have had similar opportunity. Napoleon would have edified thousands with a talk press-agented as "Why I Kept My Hand Under My Waistcoat When I Posed For Photographs." Nero, lecturing on "Music, a Flame", would have been a boon to students of Music 4. And the gentle Samuel Pepys, with his eye for insignificant details, could have constructed a series of lectures on British manners and customs that would cram Symphony Hall nightly...