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That Thoreau was once offered a job in a machine shop by a gentleman who had observed the naturalist's skill in grappling with a railroad car window, is an interesting sidelight that Professor Murdock will probably not disclose when he lecturees at 10 o'clock this morning on the famous recluse...
...personally concerned, his interest in divorce speculation came to an end in 1645 when a reconciliation was effected between him and his wife, and although the entire episode is not of primary importance it sheds an interesting sidelight on the life of one of the greatest of poets...
...enclosing a copy of the leading editorial which appears in the October issue of the Michigan Club of New York's Gothamite, which might give a new sidelight to the Harvard-Princeton football question. No doubt there are a great many readers of your paper who would be interested in knowing what Michigan men think of Harvard's most gracious condescension in permitting Princeton, who has only beaten her by a grand total of 70 to 0 in the last two years, to remain on her schedule. Very truly yours, Jeremiah C. Waterman, Princeton...
...sure, patients have been known to die, but at least such is not always the case. An interesting sidelight is the following quotation from Professor Bliss Perry of Harvard, as it appeared in an article entitled "Fashions in College Morals" in the current Ladies Home Journal...
...interesting sidelight on easy existing credit conditions is afforded by the firm's part payment arrangements on such articles as furniture, radio sets, pianos, household utensils and even complete heating plants...