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...John S. Wise will speak on "Recollections of Fourteen Presidents" in the Living Room of the Union tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock...
...pirates, and mysterious uncles that reappear in order to die melodramatic deaths. Two pieces of verse may also be classed among the contributions which are "normal": Mr. Britten's translation of one of Paul Verlaine's lyrics, charming except for the clumsy third stanza; and Mr. Douglas's "Fourteen to One." This, which sounds rather like Kipling in a great hurry, expands with moderate vigor the statement that "the number of deaths in the late Cuban War caused by disease and wounds bore the ratio of fourteen...
...yard line to Smith, and Corbett went through right tackle for twelve yards. Cutler punted to Cate on the second team's 10-yard line. Gilbert returned the ball to Cutler, and Fish obtained the ball in the next play when a forward pass was broken up. White made fourteen yards on two line plunges, and Crowley ran out a forward pass to the 7-yard line. The second team got the ball on a fumble, but Fish blocked a punt behind the goal line, and White fell on the ball for a touchdown...
...Henry Newton Sheldon, jurist, in youth a lieutenant in the Fifty-Fifth Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, for twenty-eight years a legal practitioner in Boston, for fourteen years past a learned and independent Massachusetts judge, now on the Supreme bench...
Last summer, there were never more than 300 men taking their meals at Memorial and as a result the fixed charges were extremely high. Whereas under the present arrangement an initial charge is made of something between thirteen and fourteen cents, figured on the report of March 1, the charges last summer were nineteen cents a meal before any food was served. Apparently it is impossible to cut down the help and the running expenses in proportion as the numbers decrease since a certain number of assistants are required regardless of the number of persons served...