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...press may breed content or contempt. At times your special brand seems to approach the latter...
...Sargent," said the King to the painter at a Royal Academy banquet, "I want you to do a portrait of Ribblesdale. Wonderful name, wonderful family-600 years on one property up in Yorkshire, wit, great sportsman, two fine sons, great breed...
...confusion of new faces, by the mass of pamphlets and papers dumped upon him, and by the willingness of everyone he meets to give advice and then leave him to go to the devil in his own way. A few weeks of the routine of college life will breed familiarity and confidence. But it sometimes happens that by the time a Freshman comes out of his fog, he finds himself swamped by the cumulative force of neglected studies. A Freshman's first duty, therefore, is to realize the seriousness of his college assignments and start right by organizing some plan...
...Interstate Commerce Commission is just at present considering some very grave questions. There is no instant prospect of its deciding these questions, but nevertheless the impending events breed excitement in transportation circles...
...paid for a Holstein bull, and once a Jersey sire brought $60 000, but never had such a price been paid for a fine specimen of th« breed called Shorthorn...