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...Right Reverend Bishop James Edward Cowell Welldon, 72, Dean of Durham, onetime (1892-98) Chaplain in Ordinary to Queen Victoria, Headmaster of Harrow School (1885-98), Bishop of Calcutta and Metropolitan of India (1898-1902), translator of various works of Aristotle: "It is difficult for me to understand how educated men and women can find pleasure in hunting and killing animals...
...Author. Meade Minnigerode, haunting wraith of the New York Yale Club, was born in London and went to Harrow, but lost no time thereafter in returning to his parents' homeland, where he was graduated by Yale in 1910. He has embraced literature and yachting ever since, is unmarried and free to spend himself upon a third enthusiasm, his society at Alma Mater, the Elihu Club. The secret of writing biographical history, he declares, is a knowledge of the card-index system of any substantial public library. For writing Cordelia Chantrell he evidently added to his historical method a study...
...four dormitory football managerships were awarded to Frederick Childs of New York City from Middlesex. Leonard Fowle of Marblehead from Dummer Academy, Clarence Elkins Galston, of New York City from Exeter, and Wallace Ryan of London, England, from Harrow...
...irritated by his indolence, then struck foolish and speechless by the impersonal tolerance and good Humor with which he takes his leave. Openings are plentiful, for he can pump a column into a gorgeous political balloon and, modeling his style after Edgar Poe's, turn off fiction serials that harrow most satisfactorily. By sheer imperturbability he proceeds on up to the Brooklyn Eagle's staff, departing, when his Abolition feelings get too vigorous for his employers, to take charge of Publisher McClure's new Crescent in New Orleans...
Perhaps it is wrong to wish that Ox-onians should prepare at Eton or Cantabridgians at Harrow and yet the singleness of purpose attained is to be desired. Under the present modus operandi one prepares at Oscaloosa High, aims for Harvard, and goes to Georgia Tech,--a diversion of purpose hardly a credit to a student's ambition. While the interchange of educational parts made possible by College Board Examinations is a happy convenience, it has its cultural limitations. It will be far nobler when the man who prepares at Oscaloosa High either secures a Harvard degree or none...