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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Ireland's gift to Widener is a letter Stevenson wrote her husband in reply to a note informing Stevenson of the source of some allusions in "A Gossip on Romance," a magazine article of 1883 written by the English literary man on his dim recollections of some stories his parents read to him when a boy. The third point he makes is more generally interesting and amusing than the first two. The point of the letter is that Mr. Ireland had, as he himself declared, addressed the epistle with "inspired stupidity" to "Mr. R. L. Stephenson." The letter reads...
...stories are rather too much in the note of the Saturday Evening Post, where a broader development of Biggers's "Next to Advertising" would be a feature. It is an amusing skit drawn with brilliant chalks. H. E. Porter's "Same Old Christmas Story" is the same old Christmas story. Noble graduate of 1907, with a bank account, a tender heart and too much leisure. It reads like that story of Bunner's, where the brave little boy sells the gold brick to a kind old gentleman, and thus provides a Christmas for the family of the unsuccessful bunco steerer...
...last five years, only 55 per cent of the undergraduates have been members of the Union. Obviously, the injustice of this situation where 55 per cent. of the student body support an institution which is used largely for the benefit of everybody, is very great. It is interesting to note that if the rule that 80 per cent. of an organization must be members of the Union in order to hold any meeting there had been strictly adhered to, no class dinner, smoker, mass meeting, or other public affair would have been held in the Union...
...Note.--Reveille (5.45 o'clock A. M.) is always followed by "setting up" drill exercises. Retreat (5 o'clock P. M.) is followed by a short drill. There is no instruction Sundays. On week-days, evening lectures sometimes are given on various military subjects...
...Note.--The optional work is held every afternoon during the second week's training, from 1 to 4 o'clock...