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These elephantine tales come from Mr. Robert W. G. Vail, librarian of the American Antiquarian Society--formerly headed by President Calvin Coolidge. America's circus history, Mr. Vail says, began in 1720 with the arrival in Boston of a "lyon." Devotees of the "big top" first suffered a setback when "Old Bet," the second elephant to reach this country, was shot by a Maine farmer because the manager's receipts from admissions were drawing money out of the Pine Tree State. But "Little Bet," soon to follow, had a hide "so thick no bullet could pierce it." Some young pranksters...
Mount Holyoke, which made testy gentlemen snort "rib factory" and "Protestant nunnery" when famed Mary Lyon founded it in 1837, is the eldest and most retiring of the five sisters. Always studious, always hard up, its students have been little changed by Depression. They dress drably and, under the large, stern shadow of Mary Emma Woolley, lead rather drab lives. There is no cinema house in South Hadley; the pictures President Woolley brings to the college are usually old, often dull. This year girls may smoke at specified times and places, a major concession on the part of Miss Woolley...
...233rd Commencement. While an orchestra played the overture to Die Meister singer, the President, leaning on his son's arm, marched upon the platform in black gown and took his seat among notables. One by one Yale's graduate students were given their degrees. William Lyon ("Billy") Phelps, himself unexpectedly presented with a doctorate of laws by President Angell, turned to citing the University's guests for honorary degrees. Last of all he came to Franklin Roosevelt...
...addition to the articles mentioned above this month's Scribner's contains two fair stories, an enlightening article on "Art Renascence under Federal patronage," several mediocre poems, and a list of lone hundred books of the year by the seasoned literary critic, William Lyon Phelps...
...local Virginia organization to spend the $48,000 unaccounted for, the Government put Frank Lyon, one of the Bishop's lieutenants, on the stand. He swore that he had never even heard of the "Headquarters Committee" for which the Government contended he was working. He was shown a letter on the Headquarters Committee's stationery. "Don't you remember having seen that stationery...