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...exhibition of samples of English and American chap-books and broadside ballads is being shown in the Widener Treasure room this week. The collection is now twice as large as it was when started by the late Professor F. S. Childs many years ago. The Chapmen, from whence the book gets its name, existed several centuries ago and travelled all over the country visiting town and hamlet. He became the purveyor of literature, and was the only means whereby the people could get literature of any sort...
...bore," said the man from Arkansas, "but it has its compensations. I think the funniest of my experiences concerns a chap at mid-years last year. The question read: 'Using none of the information gleaned on your selected poet during the reading period, selection one whose life-time comes between the one not selected in question I (2) (b) (1), and the preceding poet, tell in detail his influence on the poet still undiscussed...
...tell you the best story I ever heard, even if it is no me. This chap was one of those who think it the thing to go a-visiting the instructor, making throaty suggestions about the mark he has received. I remembered the fellow from midyears. I therefore told him, when he asked for my office house, that on such a point as this he must see the professor, who would, I knew, send him back to me. I knew, by the way, that the professor was already on his way for a sabbatical study of Chinese temples...
...goes to Yale, as does the son of John Joseph Pershing. The sons of John Davison Rockefeller Jr. attend Princeton and Dartmouth. Last month a person who was watching lads at play at Peekskill Military Academy, Peekskill, N. Y., pointed to a dark faced, mop-headed, loud-shouting little chap. "Who may that be?" he enquired. "That," he was told, "is Alfredo Calles, son of Plutarco Elias Calles, President of Mexico...
...bear grudge) ran into four figures, not counting dollar sings and decimal points. Mine has well been called the most sensational comeback since Sheridan's return to the Union army at Winchester. (N.B.--All historical references are supplied by Joe, Jr, a bright little chap...