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...directory is found graven, whittled, carved, and scratched on the desks in Sever. Multitudinous are the names it includes and of diverse shapes and characters: names done in Slavic, Greek, Semitic names ranging from the tiny nonpareil to the enormous two line Great Primer or even to the Canon. The owner's personality is revealed by the names, for if his name be whittled in squat fat little letters, then must his soul be squat and fat, and if his name be done in dignified and stately capitals, must his should be dignified and stately...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SELF-PERPETUATION | 11/14/1922 | See Source »

...Graven '17, end, is 21 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, and weighs 160 pounds...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: STATISTICS OF MICHIGAN SQUAD | 10/31/1914 | See Source »

...Woodland Park Hotel. Both Hughitt, the quarterback, and Splawn, on whom Michigan's chances for a field goal rest, will be in condition to play in Saturday's game. The following men compose the Michigan squad: Staatz, Dunne, Reimann, Benton, Finkbeiner, Quail, Norton, Morse, Raynsford, Skinner, Neimann, Millard, Whalen, Graven, Watson, Cochran, Huebel, Lyons, E. James, D. James, Hughitt, Zieger, Maulbetsch, Cohn, Splawn, McHale, Roehm, Bentley, Catlett, Galt and Bushnell...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: WESTERN INVADERS ARRIVE TODAY | 10/29/1914 | See Source »

...wealth's sake, and that all means which lead to the acquisition of that wealth are, if not laudable, at least expedient. Those of you who have fitly imbibed the spirit of our university--and it was not a materialistic university which trained a scholar to take both the Graven and the Ireland in England--will violently resent that thought, but you will live and eat and move and have your being in a world dominated by that thought. Some of you will probably succumb to the poison...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: KIPLING ON WEALTH | 3/24/1908 | See Source »

...unless with the purpose that it ultimately enjoy statehood," surpassed its opponents in both oratory and argument and presented a much clearer and better connected case. Both teams were inclined, however, to be somewhat flippant. The judges, Professor John Bassett Moore, LL.D., of Columbia University, Hon. Lucas F. C. Graven, Governor of Rhode Island, and Mr. A. Maurice Low, the Washington correspondent, were unanimous in their decision...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Yale Defeated Princeton in Debate. | 12/10/1904 | See Source »

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