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...manuscripts of "Mischmasch" and "The Rectory Umbrella" were written while Lewis Carroll was a student at Eton and Oxford. These also are on display...
Long ago when little Manhattan girls-they wore flounces and frilly ribbons then-wanted peppermint drops they went to Huyler's confectionery store. Little boys, in Eton collars, went there too, for their lemon drop's and stick candy. Then as the children grew up and migrated, Huyler's stores followed them, to all the important cities east of the Mississippi. A box of Huyler's candies ("A Token of Good Taste") is still the thing to buy, to present. Now David A. Schulte, arch-retailer, owns the stores, having bought them last week from Banker...
Last winter, E. Millington-Drake, of the British Embassy at Brussels, desirous of securing a collection of War books designed for presentation to the Library of Eton College, sent inquiries to the Harvard University Press concerning the small book, "Harvard Volunteers in Europe," and the more extensive publication of five volumes, "Memoirs of the Harvard Dead". The authorities of the Press made the presentation, and President Lowell and M.A. DeW. Howe '87, the author and editor of the "War Memoirs," signed their names to an appropriate inscription...
Since then Mr. Millington-Drake has sent in return the "List of Etonians" already named, with inscriptions by Canon Lyttleton, head master of Eton during the years before and at the beginning of the War, and by the compiler of the volume...
Since then the Prince has grown strapping, attended Eton, developed a taste for hunting, a penchant for cultivating scientifically vegetables, chickens, bees...