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...this Point, the Parsimonious Freshman threw away his pencil and paper, seized his fountain Pen and check book, and at once made out his subscription for the following year...
...history of the Parsimonious Freshman's year is Too Lugubrious to mention. Suffice it to say that by the end of the year the Light began to Dawn upon him. Clutching his pencil and paper he began to calculate the profits and losses of his False Economy, and discovered the following...
...years ago in Pensacola, Fla., Harry DeSilva got a Ph. D. from Harvard, another from England's Cambridge, lectured at Canada's McGill. When he took charge of Massachusetts State's psychological laboratory three years ago, he was an imaginative, and mechanical-minded scientist, disillusioned with what he calls "pencil-&-paper" psychology and with antiquated gadgets which had changed little since Germany's Wundt, father of experimental psychology, devised them half a century ago. Dr. DeSilva studied the most modern apparatus he could find in the U. S. and abroad, became convinced that he could measure ability to handle...
...priced fountain pen launched on what had always been a low-priced market. Next Walter Sheaffer streamlined his pens. Then in quick succession he introduced the Sheaffer desk set with universal socket (which seals the tip of the pen and keeps it moist), the Feathertouch nib, the special Sheaffer pencil which "propels, repels and expels the lead," the Sheaffer Vacuum-Fil pen. By 1929 the company's gross sales had climbed to $8,000,000 and its profits, averaging more than $1,000,000, were ahead of those of one of its two rivals, Parker Pen Co. (The other...
When John Brown was hanged at Charles Town in 1859 for his Harper's Ferry raid, Thomas Brigham Bishop happened to be in nearby Martinsburg. Taking paper & pencil he dashed off the crude verses of John Brown's Body Lies a-Mould' ring in the Grave, set them to the music of his Glory, Glory, Hallelujah. The song was published by John Church of Cincinnati in 1861. Union soldiers, at the outbreak of the Civil War, picked it up as a marching song, added the "Jeff Davis" verse, carried it to Washington. There in 1862 after...