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...honorable mention. The Jeremy Belknap Prize of $50 for the best French composition written by a first year student in the college or Engineering School was awarded to Bertram Henry Schaffner '32, of Eric. Pennsylvania, and Honorable Mention was made of Ernest Julian Greenhood '32, of Brookline, and Jacob Canter '32, of Newton...
...Pins watched the Morgan yacht, too, for Mor gan yachts are newsworthy and news may be made into publicity for budding resorts. And though yachts seldom-have any religious significance, churchmen throughout the world wondered about the Morgan yacht. For on it was Cosmo Gordon Lang, bachelor Archbishop of Canter bury, and where the Archbishop went was important...
...Exalted Personage (pulling up his mount): "What is being done here?" Laborer Rowlands (vexed at the question, and not looking up): "What d'you th-" (Then, stammering, as he sees by whom he is addressed) :"I . . . . I mean . . . . I am laying a kerbstone." Exalted Personage (preparing to canter urbanely away): "A kerbstone? Ah, a useful improvement." Laborer Rowlands (wiping cold sweat from his brow, as the hoofbeats recede): "Lor! 'Is Majesty...
...beloved. Each morning this admirable young woman, Princess Eudoxia, 29, assists her brother, the 33-year-old Tsar, with his correspondence, finds out what he desires to eat that day, sets the palace wenches bustling, and counts herself lucky if there remains time for a little tennis or a canter on horseback between the hours of household duty and official functions...
...determination to have Sally Penmarch, and the betrothal of Preston Baimbridge, the one man Cordelia had fixed upon, to Sally Penmarch "fazed" Cordelia no whit, even on the wedding morning. As her diary shows, she was calm in desperation and when she saw Sally slip off for a last canter alone, she sent Stephen after her with a mixture of humor and impatience. When Stephen failed to dissuade Sally, who loved him, really, after an argument in the woods that kept the wedding guests on tenterhooks, Cordelia's love for Preston was sufficient to bend her honor into...