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...From Harvard came news. There those who, by dint of native ability or sustained effort, had achieved the personal triumph of a 'key,' would now transfer some of their attention to furthering the common weal, and to lining their own pocket-books." There never has been, and so far as I know never will be, any remuneration connected with the tutorial services of the society here; nor, I believe, at any other place. . . . EDGAR M. HOOVER...
From Harvard came news. There those who, by dint of native ability or sustained effort, had achieved the personal triumph of a "key," would now transfer some of their attention to furthering the common weal, and to lining their own pocketbooks. Nothing could be more practical, nothing more just than the Harvard Phi Beta Kappa Tutoring Bureau, for laggard students before the mid-year examinations, announced last week. Many a smart, shrewd Phi Beta Kappan has before this undertaken tutoring as a private enterprise. Never before has a chapter of the national hierarchy of scholarship lent its official seal...
Ettarre, whose instrument was her heartstrings and whose home was the waste behind the moon. By dint of a cunning decimal point, Madoc abbreviated her exile in that place, confounding the Norns, as he thought, and establishing his happiness. Then it is shown how, having attained the unattainable, his life lacked savor still, until Ettarre died, a grey wife and mother, leaving Madoc with memories once more elusive and indispensable...
...with the large chest and ruddy face looking straight before him in the midst of that admiring group? He is smiling and blushing. Probably someone has just suggested that he will be the next President. That is Nick Longworth, the Speaker. He and his cronies run the House by dint of goodwill and numbers -because, you see, politics in the House isn't half so individualistic as in the Senate. Everybody likes Nick. He is the likable boss, although that lean stiff man, Tilson of Connecticut, bears the formal title of Republican leader. The impressive old man over there...
...Mapes, a young mouse from Harvard, led the amateurs and took sixth place by dint of two closing rounds...