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Date has been announced as Friday and Saturday April 30 and May 1, in Sever...
...clock this afternoon there will descend the steep steps of Sever 11 a strong-jawed, stern-faced figure, dressed picturesquely in chaps, boots, broad sombrero, and all the other parapherhalia of the Western plains. His spurs will catch on the stairs and twirl with a merry ring; his lasso will describe lazy circles over the heads of the admiring assembly. Knox Chandler, the Cowboy Professor, will mount the platform nonchantly and present his opinions in the most vigorous dialect of the youthful American language...
...answers to these questions the Vagabond will hear in Sever 11 at twelve o'clock today when John Livingston Lowes, Francis Lee Higinson Professor of English Literature, lectures on the King James Version of the Bible...
...tuition that year, he felt that since the boy was sent home in March he should get some money back. Tabor Academy explained that Father Hood had agreed to forfeit whatever money he had paid Tabor in the event his son should for any reason "sever his connection" with the school before the end of the year. As a gesture, Tabor gave back to Father Hood $100. Unsatisfied, Father Hood went to court, sued for the remaining $1,100 on the ground that Tabor had severed Brevoort's connection unreasonably by expelling him without evidence. A Plymouth County, Mass...
...Tennessee Anti-Saloon League. Leaguer Gaston objected that he had been framed by Wets, protested: "I would rather be dead than have such a thing occur." Militant Methodist Bishop Horace Mellard Dubose, the Tennessee League's president, regretfully proclaimed : "There is nothing we can do but sever him from the League. . . . The terrible curse of liquor . . . may lay its hands...