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John Quincy Adams, paged in the Army and Navy Club in Washington, turned out to be a Major of Marines from Quantico, Va. Robert Emmett, lineal descendant of the great Irish patriot, was found to be a lieutenant-commander in the Navy, stationed at Washington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Political Notes: Mar. 3, 1923 | 3/3/1923 | See Source »

...situations obviously adapted for the stage, and having sentimentality to spare. The validity of purification through love is undisputed . . . in the theatre. And Marguerite Gautier is so regenerated, though even the strong forces of pure love are enable to cure her consumption. Dumas has chosen as his heroine the lineal descendant of Manon Lescaut and Marion Delorme. And the literary children of Marguerite, purged in the same manner, are still giving the census takers of fiction and drama a puzzling job, "La Dame Aux Camelias" is a play written in youth, written at white heat, and without the customary Dumas...

Author: By J. C. R., | Title: THE CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 12/1/1922 | See Source »

...gunnery course is preliminary to the course in Artillery Firing and Conduct of Fire. Taking up first the angular and lineal measurements of both the English and metric systems, and their...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: COL. GOETZ OUTLINES NEW ARTILLERY PLANS | 9/23/1919 | See Source »

...choice of college. If such there be, he is unworthy of the sod which has furnished a greater part of the world's wit and humor. We say this advisedly because by a strange coincidence the man who drew the picture and the president of the board are lineal descendants of St. Patrick themselves, and believe that the opinion voiced in yesterday's communication is not a criterion of the general sentiment of our race in College. R.C. BENCHLEY '12. A.M. O'SGOOD...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Communication | 3/9/1911 | See Source »

...Oliver Wendell Holmes has presented to the Medical Library, Boylston place, his very valuable and extensive collection of medical books. The library already is so filled with books that, in order to accommodate this donation, which will cover eighty lineal feet of shelf room, the librarian found it necessary to have built several additional shelves...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Fact and Rumor. | 3/20/1888 | See Source »

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