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Wide-ranging in his interests, Russell got fed up with mathematics, began applying his own brand of logic to social problems. His friendship with Sidney and Beatrice Webb led him into Fabian Socialism. Bit by bit, he gave away every shilling of his inherited income of ?600 a year. He...
Fathers Timothy O'Connor and Desmond O'Dowd needed $28,000 for a new parochial school. They designed some leaflets listing England's top football games on one side and a likely winner at one of the nation's race tracks on the other. In return...
Insistence on the Sole. In its first temporary quarters (a rented mansion), the Pennsylvania Hospital reflected the informality of the times. Its first patient, Margaret Sherlock, was cured after 16 days, stayed on as a nurse. Dr. Bond lost no time in bringing apprentices into the hospital, "to follow the...
Sixpence a Week. Ernie (not even at Whitehall would anyone have thought of calling him Ernest) had once been a drayman's boy himself, and a shop clerk and a pageboy and a tram conductor into the bargain. An orphan at six, he had gone to work at ten...
The only official record kept of students was the Butler's Book, which was compiled at the end of the first quarter to write student bills. The names were taken from the list of the students who had paid the steward one shilling for a "beer and sizings" account.