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...sometimes furious writer. Despite a distaste for self-revelation, White frequently boils over: he takes after fascists in the '40s, loyalty oaths in the '50s, school prayer in the '60s and commercialism in the '70s. But the author's unwritten motto is always Multum in parvo (much in little). He avoids issues like integration and Viet Nam; the sharpest attacks concern mistakes that are less global than verbal. When the Reader's Digest changes one of his sentences, for example, he fires off a note to the publisher announcing that, unlike the vanilla bean...
...Yale in 1723 set the style for the coming centuries by awarding the first honorary M.D. to a degreeless physician named Daniel Turner, who had given the college ?16 worth of books. (Wags quipped that the degree stood for Multum Donavit-"he gave much...
...ARTHUR GILMAN.Those who are desirous of pursuing a course in shorthand will please meet Mr. Hall at Lyceum hall this evening at 7 o'clock. Hall's "Multum in Parvo" Phonography can be easily mastered in three months. Mr. Hall will instruct the classes personally...
...shorthand exclusively for Harvard college students will be formed in Lyceum hall Harvard square, beginning Tuesday evening, March 4th, at 7 o'clock, and will continue Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday evenings inclusive, at which time the regular recitals will be named. Mr. A. O. Hall, author of Hall's "Multum in Parvo" Phonography, will be present and will explain the superiority of his new system of shorthand. This course will be arranged so as not to interfere in the least with the regular course at college. By this new methed a thorough mastery of the shorthand art can be easily...
...Viri illustres, insolitus ut sum ad publicum lo-quendum, ego propero respondere ad complimentum quod recte reverendus prelaticus mihi fecit, in proponendo meam salutem: et supplica vos credere quod multum gratificatus et flattificatus sum honore tam distincto...