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...Significance. This volume is a study of the post-natal creation of a human personality. Old Mr. Cane looked like what he ostensibly was- a suburban grocer. Beneath the white apron and the shy, dull face, he had made of his intelligence a realm of power and beauty, impervious to human contempt. His neighbors could not touch the essential power that was in him and which he passed on to his daughter...
From Trinity College, Oxford, comes John Bird, whose father was head of the Natal Civil Service. He prepared for college at Clongones Wood in Ireland, and will take courses in philosophy as well as continuing his interest in literature, playwriting, and newspaper work. At Oxford he was a member of numerous literary societies and was a track "Blue", winning the hundred-yard race against Cambridge. He was reading "Greats" at the university, which corresponds in general with taking honors at American universities...
...class on mission study will meet in the Library. Educational missionary work in Africa will be the subject for discussion. P. G. Wallow '17 will speak on missions in West Africa, especially in Liberia, and J. C. Bosman '15 will tell about the work in South Africa, especially in Natal...
...payable in London, and many of the burghers were therefore unable to collect it. The English gave the Boers no protection from native tribes, and when the Boers punished them for cattle stealing and marauding the English objected. The Boers bought land in the wilderness and emigrated there, establishing Natal and the Orange Free State. The English interfered in Natal and the Boers withdrew, then the English seized Orange Free State, but finding the Kaffirs troublesome, abandoned it and siezed Basuto Land. In 1878 diamonds were found in the Orange Free State and England promptly seized it. Gold was found...
There seems to be a peculiar appropriateness in Mr. Joseph Murphy's having an engagement at the Globe the week in which the natal day of the worshipful St. Patrick is celebrated. Though Mr. Murphy does not occupy a place in the category of Irish saints, yet there are few actors dearer to the sons of Erin and the theatre-going public in general. The humor of Mr. Murphy's parts in "Shaun Rhue" and "Kerry Gow" is as delightfully dry as an average English Y lecture, and the remembrance of an evening passed in his company is an oasis...