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...these aspects of Franklin are common knowledge, but; there is another which few know. In the realm of literature there is his Autobiography, and Poor Richard. There is also the Saturday Evening Post if you want it, but you don't. Franklin, however, made other contributions to American letters, contributions which the Vagabond is frank to admit he sees only through a glass darkly. So, that this fog may be dispelled, he goes tomorrow at 10 o'clock to Harvard...
...discouraging showing of Princeton, Yale and Harvard in a great many early-season games. The cure he prescribes, however, seems a trifle absurd. These three universities as well as several other institutions, originally adopted the ruling because they considered it necessary if football was to be kept within the realm of truly amateur sport. It would, then appear far from sensible to forsake that principle simply in order to compete with and defeat colleges which do not respect the same or similar principles. --Daily Princetonian...
Thus from the Throne spoke George V last week, prorogued Parliament, plunged his realm into what Laborite William Graham called "one of the most savage elections of modern times...
...boom. Boomers included placid Sir Robert Home, onetime British Chancellor of the Exchequer and Rt. Hon. Leopold Stennett Amery, dynamic onetime Colonial Secretary. Electrum? Britain's gold standard tinkerers soon recalled that King Croesus of ancient Lydia was reputedly the first monarch to put the coin of his realm on a gold basis. Before Croesus the Greeks used coins of a gold and silver alloy called electrum. Why not, urged the rememberers of this fact, create an "Electrum Standard?" Instead of pegging silver legally to gold at 16 to 1 why not fuse the two metals, create new world...
What sends shivers up an Indian potentate's languid spine is the nightmare that Britain may some day confiscate his realm. Last week to the Emir of Khairpur came a messenger with worst tidings...