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...characters more important than their dress, the harrowed back-side of their minds more entrancing than their mundane comings and goings in the streets of Singapore; and, oddly enough, he has made the reader follow him, in spite of all the distractions introduced in the shape of Eastern colour and shifting sound...
...magazine the exact counterpart of yours published in London would have a circulation of three-quarters of a million in next to no time. I have always taken American newspapers with a large grain of salt and personally think ours far superior, but TIME is a dog of another colour altogether. Well, here's best wishes and I hope you soon have a much bigger sale, you surely deserve it. FRANK BYWELL...
...originator and most generous patron. The foundation is to be placed under the supervision of three trustees, and when the classical library has been completed the income of the endowment is to be devoted to the encouragement of archaeology and classical studies without distinction as to sex, race, nationality, colour, or creed. Through this splendid benefaction Dr. Loeb has left to posterity something which will nobly perpetuate his name. It is a monument which, though less conspicuous than the structures of brick or stone which commemorate the famous names of the past, has the advantage of transcending the limitation...
...costume was prescribed for all undergraduates which consisted of a "cost of blue gray, with waistcoat and breeches of the same colour, or of a black, a keen, or an olive colour." Freshmen were required to wear coats with plain button holes, and the cuffs could not have any buttons. The second-year men, however, were allowed the privilege of buttons on their cuffs. The coats of the Juniors had "Cheap frogs to the button holes, except the button holes of the cuffs," whereas the Seniors could have "frogs" on all their buttonholes...
Lench's theory is that architectural schools teach design, engineering, freehand, water colour, history, and other subjects pertaining to the profession of architecture, but leave out one fundamental in failing to teach a man how to be an architect. All of the fundamentals which determine the real character of a building are discussed and determined in the private office of the head of the firm. The draftsman, let alone the architectural student, is entirely unaware of what is going on. Mr. Lench is attempting in his course to take the student into the private office. He will use a case...