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One of England's mellowest legends concerns a Countess of Salisbury who found her garter slipping, in the merry, ardent days of Edward III (1312-77). Down and down slipped the garter until it tumbled before the knowing eyes of a pack of smirking courtiers. But Edward III, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GREAT BRITAIN: Garters | 4/30/1928 | See Source »

By order of His Majesty, the Royal Mint will, on Dec. 1, issue a new series of silver coins, the first general restriking of silver coins since 1816. A feature of the order is the re-introduction of the crown (about the size of a silver dollar, worth about $1.20...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: New Coins | 11/14/1927 | See Source »

The sole possible explanation for this reversal of the laws of man and nature is that Boston's antecedents are too puritanical in the unfavorable sense, to permit even the abundance of professorships to counteract its influence. The blue laws are as yet of too deep a hue to be...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SCARLET LETTERS | 10/22/1927 | See Source »

Hibben is out of his element when he attempts to write a biography of Beecher. It has already been done so much better than he could ever hope to do it. He reminds one of a second-rate doctor who was called to prescribe for a sick child. His medicine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Oct. 17, 1927 | 10/17/1927 | See Source »

Are men of vice reformed by the site of beautiful columns, and is Harvard such a den of iniquity that it requires a new chapel to pull it out of the mire? Students may at times seem obstreperous and unruly but beyond that "Heniso't qui mal y pense!"

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Re Sin | 6/9/1926 | See Source »

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