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...Noah Webster, jun., esq. (as he signed himself, to the ribald delight of his lighter-minded contemporaries) was too ambitious to be tripped by ridicule. In the era of vacillating reconstruction after the Revolution he saw his didactic chance, made it his patriotic duty. He launched his first Speller as a Yankee privateer against the King's English: "I have too much pride to stand indebted to Great Britain for books to learn our children the letters of the alphabet." A good salesman, he toured the U. S. lecturing in his book's behalf, trying-to rouse...
...cultured, well-to-do Wang family of Peiping named their daughter Ta-jun ("All Gracious"). When, aged 11 and just out of elementary school, the child was found to be dangerously tuberculous, they put her in the care of the Sisters of St. Michael's Hospital. Ta-jun quickly became interested in Catholicism, was baptized in 1929. She chose the name Marie for the Blessed Virgin, Thèrèse for the Little Flower of Lisieux, whose career she was to duplicate at many points. The 33 months pale, pretty Marie Thèrèse Wang...
...Married, Jun Chi, 25, only brother of Henry Pu Yi, last Emperor of China. Japan's puppet "Regent of Manchukuo; and San Kuo. 19. sister of Henry Pu Yi's wife; in Manchuria. Jun Chi attends the Peers' School in Tokyo...
...Olympic trials held last Wednesday and Thursday evenings, the University sabre team meets Darthmouth this afternoon at 3 o'clock at the New Indoor Athletic Building. J.H. Hurd '34, who a short time ago won the New England notice championship, Gilbert Kertin '38, present holder of the New England Jun for Foils championship, G. M. Yatesfor '33, all of whom competed in the Olympic tryouts, and Captain R. R. Lawson '32 of the University sabre team are expected to show up well...
...also voted at the meeting to adopt the recommendation of the Football manager that the managership of the second football team be made a Jun-for managership, and that the third man in the Sophomore competition, until further action is taken, be put in general charge of class teams through his Junior year...