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...views in the critical period of the siege of Boston in 1775, lost by its owner soon after in the British retreat from Philadelphia, buried for almost a century in the possessions of a Connecticut family, unearthed by Elizabeth Ellery Dana, and forever rescued from the scrap heap of history by the Harvard University Press--this, in brief, is the story of the "Diary of a British officer in Boston in 1775" which will shortly issue from the Press...
This state of affairs attracted the acrimonious pen of George Bernhard, Socialist editor of the Vossische Zeltung of Berlin, who has on occasion found words of censure to heap on the head of the great and notorious "Coke-monger," Herr Hugo Stinnes. Said Herr Bernhard: "The mass of German people do not seem quite aware of what causes foreigners annoyance at this vulgar display. It is not the fact that there is still wealth in Germany. There are rich and poor everywhere, and no sensible person will blame a man simply because he is rich if he does his duty...
...Yusupov Palace on the Liteiny Prospekt in Petrograd, is one of the finest of its kind in the former capital. Since the Bolsheviki assumed power it has become little more than a heap of ruins. Before the War, the Palace was crowded with priceless treasures. They were so well guarded that when King Edward VII, the then Prince of Wales, expressed a desire to his brother-in-law, Tsar Alexander III, to see the famed picture gallery in the Yusupov Palace, the Tsar was obliged to issue a command to Prince Nicholas, the present Prince Yusupov's grandfather...
Maryland, little-advertised university of the South, nearly dislodged Yale from its position at the top of the Eastern heap (held jointly with Syracuse and Cornell). The invaders smashed two touchdowns across the Blue goal line in the opening period. Yale's belated but stinging retort resulted in two touchdowns and a field goal-16 points. Maryland missed by inches a dropkick that would have...
Thus did the crabbed cynic ridicule those who made marble mausoleums for a heap of ashes. But those of us who have never achieved living in a wine cask, insist upon at least six feet of quiet sod and an undisturbed headstone. For, as Dr. Rand has observed, the living might find some more appropriate way of honoring the dead than by carting the bones around...