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...love with the ideas of chivalry as related to him by one of his father's Christian slaves. The bit about adoring women particularly appealed to Palamede. He deviled his father for permission to travel among the Franks, find an object of adoration. His philosophical father intimated his errand was foolish but let him go. If Palamede had not been so romantically inclined he would have been quickly disillusioned; he soon found the slave's panegyrics on chivalry were exaggerated. But then he came to Tintagel, met lovely Isolde, cowardly King Mark's Irish bride. Isolde...
...unless it rained, hailed, or snowed, provided he were on foot, and had not both hands full; nor might any Undergraduate wear his hat in the College yard, and no Bachelor when the President was there. Those were the days when all Freshmen were obliged to go on any errand for any of his seniors, Graduates or Undergraduates, at any time; when "a Senior Sophister had authority to take a Freshman from a Sophomore; a Middle Bachelor from a Junior Sophister, a Master from a Senior Sophister, and any Governor of the College from a Master...
...cockiest picklock in the U. S. last week signed a Europe-bound steamship's register: Charles Courtney, New York. N. Y., master locksmith, founder-president of the American Association of Master Locksmiths. His errand was to pick open some treasure chests plucked from Davy Jones's lockerby whom he would not say, from where he could not say. His cautious employers had merely supplied him expense money and instructions to have his passport visaed for England, France and Germany. When his ship neared Europe he would receive wireless orders for debarkation. The chests he was to open might...
From all this much-traveled Mayor Walker might have gathered that his errand of mercy was looked upon with favor in California. Such, however, was far from the case. "Impropriety . . ." grumbled the Fresno Bee. "Easier than attempting to clean up the Augean stench of Gotham!" sneered the Stockton Record. "PUBLICITY SPECTACLE . . . PROPAGANDA HIPPODROME . . . BALLYHOO!" screamed the San Francisco Chronicle...
...three volume book which Professor Sorokin is now working on and plans to work on for several years, and which he regards as especially important, although in regard to the possible results of his efforts he remarked, "But it is likely to be nothing but a fool's errand...