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After a luncheon at the Business School the Overseers will inspect the new Business School buildings; following which they will meet in the court-yard of the new Fogg Art Museum. There they will be addressed by professors of various departments...
...first year. An amiable sybarite who would rather be known for the tang of his cocktail than the depth of his mind, he withdrew as co-editor continuing to contribute only "Clinical Notes" and theatre talk. With Alfred A. Knopf to oil the wheels, and Samuel Knopf Sr. to inspect and supervise as business manager, Editor Mencken stoked his engine with a wide variety of engaging combustibles- articles by articulate hoboes and Senators, bishops and Negro poets, Clarence Darrow and Ernest Boyd, a barber, a Mormon. The circulation steamed steadily ahead...
...inquiringly into the limpid water of the canal, sailed for Manhattan after a two-day visit. In the near distance, Vice President Dawes hovered; from Havana he set sail for the canal zone. From Manhattan Secretary of War Dwight Filley Davis, sailed for Porto Rico; he will arrive to inspect the canal just as General Dawes ends his brief visit. What Mr. Stearns and the Congressmen saw, what Vice President Dawes a,nd Secretary Davis expect to see, few could guess. But many knowing U. S. citizens link their holiday interest in the Panama Canal with the facts that Navy...
...have felt not call to assassinate their paster. There may be found the works of Joseph Addison, a social critic who wrote as a gentleman for other gentlemen, and who will be read is such dark corners long after Mr. Mencken has jostled past St. Peter and gone to inspect the boobs of Paradise...
...another occasion," continued the experienced librarian, "I had been watching a young man diligently inspect the Emerson and Fielding shelf for some time without apparently being able to discover just what he wanted. When I asked if he could be helped he replied quickly, 'Oh, yes, I was looking to see if there was anybody here who would give me two nickels for a dime. I wanted to telphone.' I insisted that he take the only nickel. I had in change although he wanted to give me the dime. He went away happy, and returned the loan the next...