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Pickings were slim, but he did get a large order for wrapping paper and proudly cabled it to London. The wrapping paper manufacturers puzzled over the cable, then wrote and mailed a cautious British letter. The esteemed favour of the 15th inst. was received, but might they enquire how the wrapping paper was to be wrapped? They had the honour to remain. Sirs, y'r obedient & humble serv'ts. By the time this letter reached Canada, the customers, who had received no cabled reply to their order, were already wrapping parcels with U. S. wrapping paper, ordered...
There are 125 chapters of this honor fraternity in the country, and delegates from 75 of these will attend the meeting. Among the representatives coming to Harvard are President E. B. Bryan of Ohio State University, President Henry Le Favour of Simmons College, President S. D. L. Marsh of Boston College, President J. H. Morgan of Dickinson College, and President C. M. Sells of Bowdoin. William and Mary College, where the fraternity was first organized will be represented by Professor D. W. David, while Yale will send H. A. Farr. Professors Sigurther Nordal, Charles Eliot Norton Lecturer for this year...
Bennett. Said Mr. Bennett: "I am all in favour of the departmental store. I cannot keep my eyes off its window-displays, its crowds of customers, its army of employees [but] public opinion in Britain is not yet ripe to approve the employment of responsible imaginative writers ... in any scheme of publicity for a commercial concern. Personally I differ from public opinion . . . but I will not flout...
...reinstate for a sixpence. His loss is a rent from top to bottom of a very beautiful black coat, which cost the ruffian $40, and a blow in the face, which may have knocked down his throat some of his infernal teeth for anything I know. Balance in my favour $39.94. ... I never will abandon the cause of truth, morals and virtue...
...point to the Oxford system as the acme of suavity, good manners, cultivation, and what you have not. The fog of rumour which floats over from across the Atlantic has too long served as a text for every critic with a fondness for adornment by generality, and arguments in favour of compulsory chapel, decentralization, more discipline and less direction have all been pinned with a wave of the hand to the cloak of obscurity which covers the Great British University. In spite of the fact that the most recent Oxford news doesn't prove much, critics may cherish...