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...fountain pen, a printed paper...
...work may involve the removal of the Shaftesbury Memorial fountain. This fountain was erected in 1893 in memory of the eighth Earl of Shaftesbury, whose philanthropic work among the poor of London was the pride of the mid-Victorian era. The fountain is adorned with eight plaques of scenes from the philanthropist's life, and is surmounted by a figure of Eros, God of Love...
...fountain of youth which flows no more for Agamemnon and Mount Vernon...
Governor Smith has finally scaled the doom of the Mullan-Gage Act and set the seal in no uncertain terms as to his opinion of its fountain-head, the Volstead Act. Yet however much Wets may shout with joy or Drys thunder against the "deep damnation of this taking off". Federal enforcement, increased and strengthened, will continue in New York State and the status quo will be little deranged. Certainly Governor Smith is a close enough student of Constitutional law not to endorse an act which would have a flavor of secession, as some zealous prohibitionists have claimed of this...
...Harvard War Memorial has reversed this proverb. "A large majority of the members", says their report, "declared themselves in favor of a new chapel". Certainly this view will meet with less hostility than last year's report, which favored a purely abstract memorial such as a monument, belfry, or fountain; yet the committee's new suggestion will hardly appeal strongly to undergraduates, at any rate...