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...Authors have previously collaborated on two books?a History of the United States and American Citizenship. Previous to this collaboration, Author Charles A. Beard produced many works on history and jurisprudence, American and foreign. The Beards live at New Milford, Conn., whither they retired after Dr. Beard had professed politics with distinction at Columbia University, after Mrs. Beard had made a name as suffrage and labor student. Students now of civilization, their work is a potent civilizer...
...miners were not willing to give up their demand for higher wages and the checkoff, nor were the operators willing to yield either of these points. When his visitors had gone, Governor Pinchot said nothing. He turned his back on Harrisburg, the state capital, and went to his Milford home to think matters over for ten days...
...Milford Society for the Detection of Horse Thieves is no more. After functioning for one hundred and thirty years in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts it has at last yielded to the firm grasp of finality. To all appearances the vigilantes of the state have no longer fear of the horse thief. He has gone the way of all the figures of a less mechanical past. So the Irish leader of the English stage can arrange no more "She wings of Blascos". Like the dodo, Shaw's hero has become extinct...
...told fortunes by colored vans in country lanes now make fortunes with colored sedans from coast to coast, so the horse thief who once led stolen mares to a ready market now steers stolen Marmons to dealers in modern antiques. Indeed, the last page of the records of the Milford Society should contain, and obituary notice, not of the horse thief but of the horse, and above the seal of the society should be placed a membership card...
Nevertheless, there came a time (1916) when it was thought that there were "more distractions in the town than was good for the students." And the Rosenbaum brothers founded the Milford School at a village thus named, hard by New Haven on Long Island Sound. This was distinctly not a cramming or tutoring school, yet retained "all the charm of the old regime"?i. e. special attention to individual cases, never more than five boys to a class. To the tutorial system were added dormitories, rules, athletics, school spirit. To the various types of scholastic failures, make-up students...