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...gathered. Mr. Rockefeller placed his pinch of sand, poked a white ball onto the top of it, took a stance. Swack! Off went the ball, down the fairway, clear of the water. He gave his club back to the caddy; his eyes shone like blue beads in his parchment face. Up came Mr. Baker, swacked off his ball three yards further. The two began their match. It was Mr. Rockefeller's first game of the season.* His opponent, he knew, was a dangerous player. He manned himself for his task, halved the first hole, won the next...
This student who so lightly tossed away the credit for his course belongs in a class by himself. Why he came to college need never be asked. It was not for a bit of parchment inscribed in Latin, which probably he could not read. It was not for the privilege of writing "A.B." after his name, in that manner which often indicates, not only that he who does it owns a sheepskin, but also is himself, a "sheepshead...
...Kindleberger, President of Kalamazoo Vegetable Parchment...
...French archeologists discovered at Saliyeh in Syria a buried Greek city founded just after the death of Alexander the Great and abandoned in 273 A. D. It contained a parchment written in 189 B. C.,"said to be the oldest Greek manuscript extant," and important mural paintings...
When President Eliot accepted the parchment containing the expressions of felicity from representatives of practically every undergraduate activity in college, and delivered a brief exhortation to the 2,000 students assembled in front of University Hall to do him honor Thursday, he concluded ceremonies in celebration of his ninetieth birthday at which one of the most notable gatherings of distinguished citizens ever assembled was present...