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...Author. More interested in mono type and printer's ink than vacuum-cleaners and Patou models, Virginia Woolf ? and her husband ? set up a small hand press in 1912, and printed limited editions of choice books, her own among them. Since then, the Hogarth Press has grown, through success, to a full-fledged publishing house with appropriate offices near the British Museum...
Granting the evidence for Columbia's abhorrence of the mono-minded Ph.D, her new undergraduate program seems a mere distinction without a difference. The only clearly defined change, that of allowing the scholar and the professional man to specialize immediately on entering college, is not to be applauded. It was possible under the old elective system at Harvard and was considered one of its most glaring faults...
George Bernard Shaw has perfected the art of spontaneous originality. He finds himself so celebrated that he has arranged to send some of his letters over a code signature called a "mono-mark" as a protection against reporters and salesmen. By this stamp of original genius he has set a precedent for less original celebrities...
Says Shaw with superb candor: "My reason for taking out a private mono-mark is that I am what is called a celebrity. It is sometimes excessively inconvenient to be a celebrity, because of the advertising value of a celebrated name...
...mono fervida del pueblo fiel...