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Competitors for the Boylston Prizes for Elocution may find Professor A. S. Hill in Sever...
...father, on his death-bed, charged the present monarch to abdicate after reigning twenty-five years, unless he married before the expiration of that period. The twenty-five years expire on the day after the play opens, and the king, worried by the thought of abdicating, is trying to find a wife. He proposes first to Mrs. Sarah Belium, the missionary, and then to her niece, Marion Hayste. Being spurned by both, he resigns himself to abdication and determines to appoint as successor the man whom his ward, the Princess Anita, chooses for a husband...
...Union, the advisability, in the interest of truth and fair play, of securing some competent speaker to present the other side of the case. If this idea seems, for any reason, to be impracticable, I would suggest that those who listened to Messrs. Muller and van Broekhuizen might find it advantageous, before passing judgment on the subject discussed, to read what Conan Doyle has to say on pages 112-114 of his recent book, "The South African War: Its Cause and Conduct," in regard to Mr. van Broekhuizen and the basis of fact for his customary statements. Mr. Doyle...
Gentlemen:--Enclosed please find draft for four thousand and seventy dollars and fifty cents ($4070.50), which is hereby given to your Board by a few of the friends of Robert Fields Simes, to establish a fund, the principal of which shall be held by your Board with all the powers contained in the deed of trust dated October 1, 1901, and the income of which shall be used by your Board for the purchase of recently published books for the library of the Harvard Union. It is understood that this fund may receive additions later...
Also enclosed please find draft for twenty-five dollars and ninety-seven cents ($25.97), which is the income which has accrued on the above mentioned fund to date, and which is now available for use as above indicated...