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...congenital "diminished resistance" (euphemistic for syphilis), carcinoma (cancer), sarcoma (tumor), gonorrhea, malaria, influenza, colon septicaemia, streptococcus and staphylococcus infections. Most patients have traces of several of these, and the majority are found to have some form of syphilis. Autographs of Samuel Johnson, Poe, Longfellow, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Pepys and Bret Harte have been tested by Dr. Abrams, revealing that all of them suffered from various dread diseases...
Ends, E. H. Bailey, O. Bret, D. H. Campbell, R. Coolidge, J. R. Dean, H. L. Harris, J. L. Keleher, B. L. Kilgour, J. N. Robinson, S. S. Rudman, F. M. Sedgwick; A. B. Smith S. V. R. Strong, O. S. Sughrue, C. H. Weymer, A. Weisman, C. I. Wild...
...Comic and Humorous Reciter is catholic in its tastes ? specimens of both English and American humor are admitted. Mark Twain and Bret Harte are represented, Dan Leno, Artemus Ward, and through out, that prolific writer, Anon. Would you convulse your hearers with an eight-page humorous de scription of the Oxford-Cambridge boat race? Or titillate them instead with misadventures attending a journey in a Pullman Palace Car? Here you are ? a little memory and you can be funny in at least five dialects, all equally incredible...
...clock this evening Professor C. T. Copeland '82 will give his annual Christmas reading in the Dining Room of the Union. This year's selections are quite different from last year's and will consist of extracts from Bret Harte, Kipling, Fielding, and Leacock, including Kipling's "The Bell Buoy" and "The discovery of America", a movie satire by Leacock...
...Monday, December 18, Professor C. T. Copeland will give his annual Christmas reading in the Dining Room of the Union at 9 o'clock in the evening. This year's selections will be quite different from last year's and will consist of extractions from Fielding. Bret Harte, Kipling, and Leacock. The meeting will be open to Union members only...