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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...girl of 21 or maybe 30 and get married, your past life flashes behind you as you are pronounced Mrs. So-and-So and you realize that you are 'Miss' no more. And this isn't legal, for the law says that you can keep your born name if you want...
Since then Marlborough House, now enlarged to contain over 100 rooms, has been frequently occupied by royalty. Before he was called to the throne of Belgium, Leopold I rented it from the Crown for ?3,000 a year. It was there, of course, that the present King was born. There, in the great 'Treasure Room," the fabulous riches presented to King Edward on his tour of India are still preserved in seclusion. At present the aged Miss Knollys, lifelong companion of Alexandra, is in charge of Marlborough House, pending its disposition to the Prince of Wales...
That Harvard is at once the richest university in the country and the poorest is an old saying born of a very important truth. Rich by token of actual endowment, it is often poor by token of immediate needs. With the establishment of the new Harvard Fund whose details are announced in the news columns of this issue, this situation promises to become less serious...
...Harvard was given all Sheldon's career. Son of a Maine clergyman, he was born in Waterville on November 21, 1851. It was an bale family: one of his brothers won distinction in law, another in medicine; a sister was one of the most effective teachers in Boston. After graduating from our College in 1872, with Highest Honors in Modern Languages, Sheldon spent years in study abroad, mostly in Berlin and Paris. In 1877 he was made Instructor in Modern Languages. Not until 1884 was he definitely assigned to the Romance side, which he regarded as his own; in that...
...Alone in his glory, the great god of Football broods over the tiers of the empty stadia. This new-born yet mighty deity muses on the months that will have passed until the course of a new year shall again bring thousands to cast themselves at his feet. But though the god be dormant the cult goes on, for while high Priest Grange preaches the spirituality of football, thousands of coaches or minor clergy urge reverence for their chosen divinity...