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...Boston Public Library and the Harvard Business Library, it is a bit difficult to have patience. The whole arrangement is plainly one under which the city of Boston will receive much more than it gives. All the Boston Library does is to make the new Harvard library in Brighton a depository for such scattering books on business as are not required for ordinary current use at the Library in Copley square. In return, the Boston Public Library, and every citizen of Boston, will be given free use of one of the richest and most complete collections of books and files...
...town of Brighton, Eng., where middle-class Londoners go for weekends, Aubrey Vincent Beardsley was born in 1872. At eleven he was a musical phenomenon; he played the piano in a concert with his sister. Also he wrote. Also he drew. Also he sold insurance. Friends, seeing that he was too lazy to be a pianist, begged him to take up art. He was encouraged by Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Puvis de Chav annes. He borrowed from Japanese art its use of the single line and its penchant for ornamental perversions. He dressed neatly in an ordinary fashion...
...message was from Langdon Bell, Business Manager of the Daily Princetonian and stated that a shipment of cigars was en route for Brighton to be distributed to the men suffering sartorially from last Saturday's defense of the goal-posts...
...Princeton cigars have not arrived. Ten wistful goal-post guardians stand and wait at the Brighton police station. Though the post man brings no parcel, the blue-coats trust in the Tiger. They are without hats but not without faith...
Spectators attending the game in cars and who park their cars either in the private parking field on the Brighton playground off Western Avenue may on playground off Western Avenue may enter through Gate 4, at the southern corner of the field. Ticket holders leaving their automobiles on the Metropolitan Parkway in Brighton should enter the enclosure either, through Gate 14, at the southwest corner of the field, or through Gate 19, opposits the Newell Boathouse on the north side of Soldiers Field...