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...Dyke, retired patriarch of Princeton University and of U. S. letters, a close friend of Dr. Irvine. Never the nation's laureate, Dr. van Dyke was yet to have a work of his attended, upon its first public hearing, by the first lady and gentleman of the land. At the dedicatory services there was to be sung a new hymn,* the first verse of which came to Dr. van Dyke one fine morning last spring while he was knee-deep in his favorite troutstream. Forgetting line, flies, fish and footing, Dr. van Dyke fetched out a scrap of paper...
Doctor Ingram is the 108th Bishop of London, and when at home lives in the building which his predecessors have inhabited for over 1300 years. The prelate of the English Church is a direct descendant of the lords of Fulham, who were high among the nobility of the land in the days of St. Erken wald, a dozen centuries...
...Little's Building, or Little Hall as it is now called, was constructed in 1848. The land next to it was occupied by a variety store, run by Mrs. Prudence Hyde. Mrs. Hyde specialized in renting out graduating gowns in the spring. She had several dozens of these gowns which were cleaned annually and rented to class after class...
...When Holyoke House was constucted in 1870 on the site of Mrs. Hyde's little shop, it was originaly intended to be a hotel, but this plan was not carried through by the college. Holyoke House was built on tax exempt property, but the six inches of land that supports the party wall between it and Little Hall is not tax free, and the city collected revenue on this strip for some time, and as far as I know, it still does...
...there are no inherent obstacles, if we are neither by nature solitary-minded nor by education completely convinced of the ultimate verities, then there is hope. There is no sacrifice of traditional method needed. We need not try our land at cleverness. But there is something to be said for experiment, even if trial be followed by error, and there is always the chance. Philosophy has now become as popular as word-puzzles, and philosophy used to be considered academic...