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...doings within the memory of man. With very little encourage- ment he will give the scores and details of Harvard football games between any two given points in the past 20 years. His brothers in the fraternity of the press turn to him as to Volume XXII of the Britannica...
...author of the truest quality and his voice?a voice of liquid gold?is lent to every civic cause. He is a trades unionist in principle and practice but believes in the open shop. He is a fighting pacifist. He is the only man of whom the Encyclopedia Britannica reversed its opinion completely within a decade. General Pershing said of him: 'He has made possible what I have done.' He is a loyal friend, a gracious enemy. In his presence conversation is rarely trivial and never low. He is not all things to all men; he is the same thing...
...member of Psychology 9. A peculiarly outrageous instance of mutilation has recently occured at the Library in connection with this course. Within a few days the eight final pages of the article on Aesthetics have been torn from the reading-room copy of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, presumably by some member of the course. Such an act will, I am sure, be promptly and vigorously condemned by every one of the other 35 members of Psychology 9, and even, I hope, by the who who did it, when he reflects that his deed wronged his fellow students who had the same...
...curing flat feet; whom Great Britain knighted for his orthopedic work on War wrecks; for whom Dr. F. W. Axham lost professional caste and died last year scorned by doctors (TIME, April 19, 1926) ; who wrote the article on "Mani-pulative Surgery" in the newest version of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...Also editor-in-chief of the Encyclopedia Britannica...