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Recriminations. The House's debate was fanged with many a poisonous word, mostly spewed at the Anti-Saloon League and its attempt to dominate the House by a circular letter from Dr. McBride. Dr. McBride sat in the visitors' gallery, facing the Speaker and behind the festooned clock, through which for years Wayne B. Wheeler used to peek out as his minions did his will on the floor below...
...exceptions taken by the letter appearing in these columns yesterday to the CRIMSON's objections to the plan of the Committee on Degrees in History and Literature which sets the written divisional examination in Junior year do not, the CRIMSON believes, reproach the validity of the main objection. This was, briefly, that to set an examination which shall serve solely as a voucher of understanding sufficient to permit intensive specialization makes the examination only something to be got out of the way as easily as possible...
...Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe". The duplicate of this volume which sold for $11,000 in New York, is now on exhibition in the University library. Still another duplicate of the New York sale now being exhibited in Widener is a copy of the first edition of "The Scarlet Letter". This volume brought $1,175 in New York, chiefly because of Hawthorne's autograph on the frontispiece. The Widener volume, however, not only has an autograph, but a word of greeting written in Hawthorne's own hand to the recipient of the book...
...astonishment of the reader of his blue book who might well have been baffled by this newest mutation in the evolution of the Vagabondia was somewhat mitigated by a letter brought to light upon further investigation. The Vagabond King explained his sportive joy in the filling of the blue book as follows...
Smart U. S. Citizens hummed thus, last week, as they perused a private letter or two containing delicious details of the recent London marriage of England's cherubic Lord High Chancellor, Sir Douglas McGarel Hogg, Baron Hailsham. For one thing this extremely select wedding was attended by only 60 guests, the press and the public being barred. For another it took place in King Henry VII's Chapel, in Westminster Abbey, the most gloriously Gothic and splendid shrine in England. Moreover the license was the first to be issued by the new Archbishop of Canterbury and Primate of All England...