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...year ago, while "Bliss" was Professor Bliss Perry, beloved English teacher. Professor Copeland, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus, and his readings have thrilled thousands. Annually be attracts a packed hall to listen to him as he intones familiar and unfamiliar words from the Bible, Kipling, Stephen Leacock, Harvardman Robert Benchley '12, and many more." About each of these the legends are never-ending...
...three B's" are the chief concern of the Donations Committee under Richard L. Hall '43 and Richard Leacock '43. This group has already been functioning through networks of representatives in the Houses, the Union, and Dudley, collecting books and blood and selling bonds and war stamps...
...Richard Leacock '43, in charge of the campaign, said last night that he hoped all the Houses would eventually reach the mark of 150 donors set by Winthrop, the only one in which complete returns are known...
...Volunteers for blood donor banks: Richard Leacock...
...Stephen Leacock's book, which disregards the question, makes the pleasantest reading. A simple, hopeful act of patriotism, quickly thrown together, it has a nice old man's blandness over skeletons in the imperial closet, a nice old man's bright readiness with encyclopedic information. Told in the manner of a genuinely charming speaker at a banquet of the English-Speaking Union, the book cheerfully describes the Empire as the reward of centuries of unblemished pluck and fair play, and recommends, as a basis for durable peace, a Union of the Empire, France...