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...estimated that over $5,000,000 was spent in Boston during the convention. That business should therefore wink at the truth is-natural. But it is a peculiar twist of public morality which leads the mayors of Boston and Cambridge to hasten to express indignation at honest and justified criticism, when their criticism could have been so much more effective had it been directed against the conditions surrounding the Legion Convention itself. A little intellectual honesty and straight thinking in public would be distinct assets to nearly all of our officials...
...company, actively engaged in its traffickings, the public is not far wrong in believing that Sir Joseph is Duveen Brothers. He is president ("head factor") of the firm. Employes are unable to recall a single internationally important deal which any of the other brothers put through. They hasten to add that once the Dreyfus collection arrives in the U. S. it will not be put up for auction. "Duveen Brothers," a manager explained solemnly last week, "has its important private customers...
...president of the Northern Baptist Convention, Dr. Albert William Beaven, was obliged to hasten from its final sessions to deliver the commencement address at Peddie School, Hightstown, N. J., whence his only son Robert Haddow Beaven was graduating...
...vernal outburst having left us, we hasten to put forward the sere and practical message of our hearts. It is, simply, that there would be more time for the honeysuckle if there were more copies of reserve books in the Library. Do these seem unrelated? Not to him who, as a Sophomore, has beaten his wings in a void in vain, hoping to read optional books for Buzzer's History; who, as Junior, has known for his worst enemies those grad students who are also interested in Romantic poetry; who, when all should be feasting and fun and senior singing...
Again like most of the subjects by whom he is so well beloved, His Majesty did not hasten with any anxious eagerness to Hamlet. Indeed, he did not go at all. But graciously the King-Emperor set May 19 as the date for a "Command Performance" of Hamlet, announced that Their Majesties will attend "if possible...