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...series of three lectures will be given by Dr. G. A. Reisner. Professor of Egyptology, under the auspices of the Museum of Fine Arts. The lectures, which will be illustrated by lantern slides, are open to the annual subscribers of the Museum. The first, on Tuesday, March 24, at 3 o'clock, will be on "Ethiopia, the Land of Roads"; the second, on March 31, will describe the Pyramid Age; and the third will depict the "Beautiful Temple of Zoser. The lectures will take place at the Museum of Fine Arts...
Died. James Patrick ("Big Jim") O'Leary, 60, "Prince of Gamblers"; in Chicago, of heart disease. He was the son of the "Mrs. O'Leary" whose famed cow kicked over the lantern that started the Chicago fire of 1871. At his palatial combination saloon and gambling house he took bets on anything from horses to the weather, until Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis (the now "Baseball Tsar") ordered it closed...
...friend and biographer of Samuel Clemens proved tolerant, interested in new things, pleased to reminisce of the old. Did he remember Stephen Crane? Indeed he did; in fact, he had reread The Red Badge of Courage within the last month. He remembered Stephen in the days of The Lantern, a literary club in the downtown regions, where Crane and others congregated-Crane pale, nervous, always a good fellow...
...Hall is a recognized authority on his subject. An interesting feature of his lecture will be his account of the inside history of the famous "scrap of paper" incident which was concerned with the beginning of the world war. The lecture, which will be illustrated by lantern slides, is open to the public as well as to all members of the University...
...delegates from College Humor, College Life, the Yale Record, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Voodoo, and the Dartmouth Jack o' Lantern arrived last night. The rest of the delegates are expected to arrive in Cambridge this morning in time for the first committee meetings...