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...made by the joiner. . . . When just 8 or 10 years of age, I read through Voltaire's history of Louis XIV and Peter the Great, and looked up all the French words I did not know and wrote them out. A little later, there was read, aloud to us Hume and Smollett's history, as well as Buchanan's, Rollin's and others; likewise Mitford's Greece; while in the evening my father read aloud Milton's Paradise Lost, Cowper's Task . . . and Dryden's works. With an Italian master, we read the works of Tasso and Metastasio. Our education...
...Ellis Hume Williams, counsel for the plaintiff...
...story, as revealed during the trial, showed that Mrs. Dennistoun lived as the mistress of Sir John Cowans with her husband's consent (denied by defendant, but supported by evidence) and, as Sir Ellis Hume Williams puts it, enabled her husband to live on her immoral earnings. It was alleged by plaintiff, denied by defendant, that several important Army positions had been secured by Mrs. Dennistoun for her husband through the General...
...Harvard negative, J. R. Creel '27, E. G. Wesson '25, E. A. Smith '26. The alternates will be E. J. Metzdorf '26 and F. W. Lorenzen '28. Yale negative, J. G. Becker '26, E. L. Richards '25, J. McH. Hopkins '25. Yale affirmative, E. G. Jenkins '27, J. C. Hume '25, B. Davenport '26. Princeton affirmative, B. Dunham '26, C. A. Howard '27, J. P. Lee '25, V. V. Ravi-Booth '27. Princeton negative, R. M. Fulle '26, Hooper Montclair '25, J. T. Koehler '26, with R. S. Sams '27, and H. G. Schlesinger '25 as alternates...
...student council called a meeting, waiting not for faculty permission. From the meeting came a mandate-Professor Kau must apologize for his barbarity by humbling himself before all at Chapel Service, where, decreed the Yalis, he should bow three times to students, three times to faculty. President Hume of Yali had this carried out-triumph in the Yali camp. Then President Hume expelled the President of the Student Council- triumph for Professor Kau. Thereupon 240 Yalis refused to attend classes, wrote for help to the Anti-Foreign and Anti-Christian Association. President Hume also set pen to paper, informed...