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Louisiana State University is a growing institution. It is a school created over the massive pillars of Union, Justice and Confidence. Its student body and alumni are as proud of it as are the ones of Harvard, Yale, Oxford and Cambridge. The wrongdoings of a single man could not make guilty a devoted, scholastically competent faculty and a loyal corps of students that cherish deep in their hearts the alma mater that is making them men of character and good citizens for the future. We enjoy here on this campus the liberties given to us by our forefathers...
Thanks to ample supplies of Cooper's Oxford Marmalade, Lux and Epsom Salts he spent a pleasant six months going reasonably native at Bangangté, where leisurely, mild-mannered King N'jiké II gave up his own house to the visitor and retired with his 80-odd wives to the other end of the village. Author Egerton interviewed fortunetellers and sorcerers, attended dances, investigated charms, drank palm wine (it tasted like flat ginger ale), picked up stray bits of local lore. Sample: as fee, a Bangangté midwife is given the bananas on the tree where...
TIME'S reporter on People (TIME, July 3, p. 28) should go back to his Latin class. The point of the Oxford University orator's pun, in presenting Justice Frankfurter for the D.C.L., was that instead of quoting the poet correctly-Felix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas-he said reorum, changing the poet's "things" into the more appropriate "legal arguments...
...thank for his education. She and her free brood tramped 150 miles from Cuthbert to Atlanta, Ga. There he worked his way through Atlanta University (1876) and became first president of Georgia State Industrial College. He spent many a vacation taking short courses at Harvard, University of Chicago. Oxford, topped them off with a night banking course in the University of Pennsylvania-and so, after 30 years of academic work, became a banker...
...lepidissime, facetissime, venustissime, jocosissime, ridibundissime, te cum turba tua Leporum Facetiarum Venustatum locorum Risuum, ego . . . admitto ad gradum Doctoris in Litteris honoris causa,* said George Stuart Gordon, Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford to P. (for Pelham) G. (for Grenville) Wodehouse...