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Contrary to a widely spread rumor, Stephen Leacock, McGill professor of Economics and noted humorous essayist, will not come to Harvard as a roving professor under the Tercentenary Fund...
Professor Copeland, in accordance with his usual custom, has not announced in advance what selections he will read. In the past he has read from Kipling, Stephen Leacock, Dunne, Thackeray, and many others, as well as from the Bible...
...circle of sixty-eight years since Confederation finds the General Government baulked again & again in its efforts toward desirable Dominion-wide legislation by the 'rights' of the provinces. Upon them has been bestowed so much self-rule that Professor Stephen Leacock has grounds for wondering whether America eventually will have a group of 'Balkans' to the North. . . . Last year, collectively, our ten governments and nearly 4,000 municipalities collected approximately $690,000,000 in taxes. Did they spend it all? Did they! All of it, and a combined deficit of something like...
...eight books, five plays and 80 articles that have been written on the subject since Dickens died in 1870. That verdict was handed down in 1914 after a literary mock trial at which Gilbert Keith Chesterton was judge, George Bernard Shaw a juror. A notable dissident, however, is Stephen Leacock. This humorist and McGill University economist believes that for Drood to be murdered is too obviously unmysterious. According to Dickensian Leacock, Drood managed to escape a murderous assault by Jasper, but the choirmaster, in an opium dream, fancied he was accomplishing the murder nonetheless. Drood disappeared, bided his time, finally...
Copey, most famous of Harvard traditions, and now become a living legend, speaks to the nation on Saturday night at 10.45 o'clock, when he gives a reading over the Columbia station WAAB, on a nation-wide hook-up. His readings will be Kipling's Mandalay" and Leacock's "My Financial Adventures...