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...afternoon last week, Cartoonist Rollin Kirby of the New York World thumbtacked a fresh sheet of paper and set about sketching two figures. One was a tall figure, one a short. They faced each other, the small one standing with his knees slightly bent, his shoulders hunched, his left thumb insultingly applied to his buttonish nose. In his right hand was a little wooden sword. On his head appeared a crested toy helmet, bravely capped by a toy British flag. Behind his twiddling fingers, the small creature's mouth was opened in scolding anger; his scrubby mustache and beetling...
Philip Nichols, Jr., Country Day School of Boston; Rollin Hosmer Norris, Middlesex; Brooks Otis, Exeter; David Michael Owens, Boston Latin School; Newton Belmont Parker, Roxbury Latin School; Philip Hamilton Rhinelander, Kent; Joseph Robinson, Boston Latin School; Edward Rudin, Boston Latin School; David Clemens Sachs, Boston Latin School; James Henry Sachs, Middlesex; Nathan Maxwell Sachs, Boston Latin School; Daniel Monfried, Sandomire, New York University; Marion Sanford, Exeter; Marshall Schalk, Boston Latin School; Justus Julius Schifferes, St. Paul (Minn.) Academy...
...Died. Rollin S. Woodruff, 71, one-time (1907-9) Governor of Connecticut;* in Guilford, Conn., of heart disease...
...best cartoon ($500) ? to Rollin Kirby of The New York World for the cartoon Nen's from the Outside World...
...read through Voltaire's history of Louis XIV and Peter the Great, and looked up all the French words I did not know and wrote them out. A little later, there was read, aloud to us Hume and Smollett's history, as well as Buchanan's, Rollin's and others; likewise Mitford's Greece; while in the evening my father read aloud Milton's Paradise Lost, Cowper's Task . . . and Dryden's works. With an Italian master, we read the works of Tasso and Metastasio. Our education was good inasmuch as we read classical works and not textbooks. What...