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...officer are greater under the Harvard rules than under the Carnegie Foundation rules, the retiring allowance will be computed in accordance with the former. If, on the other hand, the rights of an officer are smaller under the Harvard rules than under the Carnegie Foundation rules, the latter will prevail...
...Grenfell is a magistrate, a holder of the Board of Trade certificate of competency as a master-mariner, and an agent of Lloyds in pursuing seamen who wreck their vessels for the insurance. He is an active opponent of the fraud, oppression and drink evils which prevail in Labrader. Last year he was made a Companion of the Order of St. Michael and St. George by King Edward, and recently he has received from Oxford the first M.D. degree that this university has ever given...
...adapted from the Neapolitan of Trilussa the description of a box of puppets after the play is over. The incongruity of the masquerade of dialect words and phra67ses in the most exquisite of literary forms humorously suggests the world of the marionettes, and the perfect equality and fraternity that prevail in the box symbolize the artificiality of social distinctions. This point is obscured, however, by the simile "like slaughtered sheep"; nor is it, strictly speaking, the "show" that brings beggars "astraddle of the guys what's got the dough." I question also whether the dialect is used quite consistently throughout...