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...blush, every year, on the Monday morning following Lantern Night. The Freshmen, in the pristine glory of their untilted caps appear before us in wistful immaturity. We pity them, and we cannot be of service. Somehow, to give their caps a gentle shove to right or left smacks of the embarrassment of dropping dimes in beggars caps; the grateful glances of the aided are so humiliating to all concerned. And yet, friends, it is not even this that causes us our heated blush. It is that so many of us, in years gone by, have stealthily tipped our caps ourselves...
...kingdom, fled to Maui, left Dr. Judd as his agent to deal with Captain Paulet. The British officer became so oppressive that Dr. Judd, unable to negotiate further with him, withdrew to the royal mausoleum in the palace yard. There by the uncertain light of a ship's lantern, Dr. Judd carried on government business using the coffin of Queen Kaahumanu (1824-1832) for a desk. His messages of protest, smuggled out of the tomb and carried overseas, brought repudiation of Captain Paulet by the British Government and his withdrawal from the Islands...
...appeared at the last and most brilliant court of the season in attire which attracted even more attention than the blazing massive diamonds on Queen Mary's stately bosom. Not since the late, lantern-jawed Col. George Harvey called down the sarcasm of the U. S. press by reverting to them in 1921, has a U. S. Ambassador to England failed to wear silk knee-breeches to Court. Ambassador Dawes, Chicago hustler, went in his none-too-neat dress suit with long trousers. Next day he read with relish in London's conservative Morning Post...
...courtyard will open on the river. It will be higher, over twice as large a Standish, however, and there will be two subsidiary courts or gardens of each side of the main one. These all will look out on the river. Unit No 2 will be crowned with a "lantern" similar to that on the present business school. Professor Julian Coolidge to be in charge of Unit No. 1 an Professor Chester N. Greenough will be master of the House on the river...
...then that extraordinarily clever little people the Japanese who invented the lantern that bears their name, how well they epitomized the fragility of human happiness. Be careful to get the pretty paper things inside before it rains for their colored loveliness cannot stand the rigors of our sharp New England climate. But after all they have lighted the queens of the May it only for a night. And wasn't it Ted Lewis who first said "You shall be King. King...