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This circular, prepared by Samuel Eliot Morison '08, Professor of History, and Pierre Dec. 1a Rose '95, states, "the Seal is a circular disc with the inscription "Sigillum Academiae Harvardinae in Nov: Ang: ' round its edge with the Coat-of-Arms of the University as its central ornament...
Sharing none of Thackeray's prejudices, Osbert Sitwell and Margaret Barton, in their new history of Brighton, find George IV, while not exactly an ornament to Britain, at least no unmixed Victorian monster. His streak of family insanity "had softened down to a curious, harmless and most effective eccentricity." He was frequently drunk, but no more so than most English aristocrats of that period. His delusions, that he had defeated many butchers and bakers in fistfights, that he had commanded at many a battle, including Waterloo, were merely symptoms of the same madness that had made his old father...
Fifteen miles out of Cleveland is rustic, somnolent Berea (pop. 6.000) whose chief industry is Cleveland Quarries Co.. whose chief ornament is Baldwin-Wallace College, and whose chief glory is Raymond Moley. Three generations of Moleys have lived in or near Berea. From his native Berea went Raymond Moley to profess politics in Cleveland's Western Reserve University, to direct the Cleveland Foundation, to investigate crime in Ohio and in New York, to profess government and public law at Columbia University, to be Franklin Delano Roosevelt's chief economic adviser, his chief Braintruster. his Assistant Secretary...
...Imam's abdication in his favor. While the son launched guerrilla raids on Ibn Saud's supply trains in the hills, the compact crinkle-bearded old man scrambled up into Sana, city of 40,000, and squatted in his throne room where the only ornament on the dark blue walls is his own scimitar. Refusing to abdicate, he set about rallying his black, wiry, citizens for the defense of Sana...
...monstrous gimcrack every hour tells the time in 27 different cities, plays a pipe organ, sings, talks. At the hour of Lincoln's funeral it intones the Gettysburg address. For the memory of President Garfield it plays "Gates Ajar," for President McKinley "Lead Kindly Light." An incidental ornament is a toy electric train...