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...clock this morning, I shall approach the first of my elevations, and enter the old portal of Harvard 2, to hear Professor Yeomans lecture in Government 19b upon the "due process" clause of the law as it effects the deprivation of property...
...sais quoi about the moving picture financier which never fails to irritate me. I have tried to find a reason for this badge of the banker, but have failed. So this morning at 9 o'clock, any one who so desires may see me enter the portal of Harvard 1 to learn whether the answer to my question can be found in Professor Gray's lecture in Economics 2 on Money and Banking in the United States...
...been spoken of by Burton Holmes, famed traveler, loquacious lecturer, as "the best appointed theater I ever inspected." Commenced in 1889, completed in 1908, it has teemed ever since with the most consistently well dressed public in the world. To those not in evening dress-the embellished portal is Cerrado, Chiuso, Ferme, Locked...
Then there are the foreigners. They are always there--more and more of them. The good old Boxer days were the days of real sport. Carpenter Hay didn't hang the open door right. This famous portal swings only one way--in, always in. It's high time, says almond-eyed Chu-Chin-Chow, to declare a Monroe Doctrine for China, including "exploitation" along with "colonization" in the text. Perhaps he doesn't like having his affairs regulated by strange, jabbering merchants and ship's cooks. And who shall say him nay? After all, the "heathen Chinee" may be human...
...Holy Door of St. Peter's. There he will strike upon the door with the hammer, crying out: "Open unto me the Gates of Justice." At the third stroke, masonry which has walled up the door since the last holy year (1825) will be made to crumble, the holy portal will gape. Assisted by Jubilee penitents, the Pope will then use his trowel to clear away the wreckage and forthwith enter, the first...