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...more often in history than in literature courses will be the subject of Dr. Maynadier's lecture at 11 o'clock this morning in English 29b. That Benjamin, Disraeli should merit a lecture in a course on the history of the English novel may seem strange; that any such fancier of academic odds and ends as my wandering self should make it a point to go to Sever 35 to find out why can seem nothing but natural...
...Manhattan, a tall gray-haired man in a dinner jacket followed a small brunette into the night club of one Texas Guinan. Waiters gaped. Broadway brahmins stared at each other with a wild surmise. "It's Harry Thaw," they said. The famed slayer, onetime maniac, rabbit-fancier, danced with the brunette, entertained many at his table, sent incredible tips to orchestra-players, listened to a song composed in his honor...
...Francis Chelifer, a poet of no mean ability (as Mr Huxley's verses testify), vacationing in Italy from his duties as editor of The Rabbit Fancier's Gazette. One afternoon, while he had been swimming in the Tyrrhenian, the prow of Mrs. Aldwinkle's sailboat had knocked him unconscious. The lady had thereupon made him her guest and, convinced that by conveying him to the palace in her Ro-Ro? she had saved him from drowning, had fallen in love with...
...Mabelle A. Burbridge, a widow of 42, assisted by a daughter of 24. Formerly she lived in California and was editor and business manager of The Pacific Fancier, a poultry paper. In November, 1922, she took up her work with Mr. Hearst in Manhattan, giving advice on things valuable to women, both by article and by letter. In the words of the blurb "Prudence's reaction to each letter is individual in itself. . , . Come to Prudence with confidence! Your letter is not departmentalized, rubber stamped, or form-letter-answered. If you have never received a letter from Prudence Penny...
...most Harvard men should number some whose conception of the rights of ownership of their fellow students is so small. The summary treatment which gymnasium and laboratory thieves have met with in years past has, it is hoped, tended to make such diversions as theirs unpopular; but the umbrella fancier has returned to college with his cupidity undiminished - rather increased by the knowledge that no attempt is ever made to detect him. It is to the credit of the employes of the gymnasium and laboratories that when money, watches or other articles were purloined, they have exerted themselves to discover...