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...famine and nakedness and the world's ingratitude; and sitting in gaol, with one hand left him, wrote our joyfullest, and all but our deepest, modern book, and named it Don Quixote." Not a letter or a manuscript of Cervantes has survived, nothing but a few legal documents, "residuum of his continual poverty...
...that James' philosophy was a philosophy noble only with James, and that it was debauched in its transmission to men of Watson's particular stamp. Much nonsense has been traced to him, including the rugged kind of individualism and the apotheosis of the practical man. But the characteristic residuum of his thought is not so close to either of these as to the admirable maxim of Agassiz: "No one sees farther into a generalization than his own knowledge of details extends." With the qualifications imposed by James' own "sensitive breastbone" and the bow given to pragmatism by its chief apostle...
...sufficient. Mr. Joseph Macaulay makes, ah, a very Narcissus in the velveteens of Archibald the All-Right. If one might criticize Miss Laura Ferguson for languishing overmuch, there is always the answer that languishing becomes her as it did many a Victorian damozel. For the residuum, they are All-Right...
...West Babylon, N. Y., experimenters announced the development of a new illuminating gas. The raw material used: crude oil or refinery residuum. The product: a hydrogen and carbon combination containing no carbon monoxide because manufactured at low temperatures. The product's qualities : non-asphyxiating because void of carbon monoxide ; content of 1,600 British thermal (heat) units as against 525 to 585 units in most illuminating gases. From 7 gal. of refinery residuum are produced 1,000 cu. ft. of the new gas and a by-product of 1½ gal. of gasoline high in ethylene content...
Gifts amounting to $155,510 were accepted, the largest being $111,370 from the estate of Gordon McKay. Another important gift was from the estate of Samuel C. Cobb, $30,000, on account of one-fifth part of the residuum of his estate "to be kept as a fund, but not requiring it to be invested as a special fund, of which the income only shall be used and applied towards the payment of the college dues of students in that university during their freshman and sophomore years, in such manner and for such deserving students as the faculty shall...