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...with about a third of modern Canada. During the next 200 years, the "Company of Merchant Adventurers of England trading into Hudson's Bay" conducted a government and operated trading posts over an area 1,000 miles wide by 3,000 miles long. The company's earliest business consisted in purchasing furs from the Indians, and selling them in Europe at large profits. Later, when Canada began to be settled, the Company took to selling parts of its enormous land holdings to colonists. In 1871 it surrendered its governmental powers, and continued as a commercial concern purely, still...
...rhythmical way. Yet the greatest character is himself, the artist struggling against the philosopher, the doer struggling with the dreamer. This is a book everyone should read. It is, in my humble opinion, a great piece of autobiographical writing. This was his conflict; this was his problem from the earliest days. He essayed heroism in the Spanish War, being of the stuff of his father, who dreamed dreams of heroism in the Civil War and spun tales of visualized if not actual valor. Then Anderson became a manufacturer. He owned a factory. In a factory, the soul is destroyed...
...display in the Treasure Room of Widener Library a large exhibit of early editions of all the standard Greek and Roman authors arranged by Professor C. H. Moore of the department of Latin. All the books in the exhibit were printed before 1500 A. D. and the earliest date back to 1470. Over half of the exhibit will consist of first editions, that is, of books which represent the first printed copies of the Greek and Latin works they contain...
Beginning with the modest assertion that the earliest surroundings of the sons of well-to-do people are nonliterate, Mr. Chapman adds that the private school is looked upon as a sluiceway to college. All through their life in the private school the boys are so oppressed by the spectre of the college entrance examination, marching upon them with a chastising text-book, that they cannot "find the leisure to be truly interested, truly absorbed in any thought." The remedy--Mr. Chapman uses the teaching of English as an example--is the reading of good books, learning poetry by heart...
...Pierian Sodality Orchestra is the oldest institution of its kind in America, and is the institution from which the University Glee Club sprang. In its earliest years the orchestra had many difficulties to overcome, at one time there was only one member of tile Sodality left at the opening of the University in the fall, but this solitary member succeeded in forming a new Sodality, and since then it has become more and more prominent in the field of orchestral work...