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William Ellery, 1747, Signer, Declaration of Independence...
Many of the students seem to think that by signing the petition for a new dining hall they will give up their right to a place in Memorial Hall next year. This is not so, for the petition distinctly states, that the signer wishes to board at a place similar in price and management to Memorial, only in case he cannot obtain a seat in Memorial Hall. Thus by singing the petition no one will be obliged to leave the existing association...
tings. Through false representations he has already induced several men to sign their names in "an address book" which later has taken the form of a legal contract binding the signer to the amount of $50.00. The paper is tampered with after it is signed by the would-be purchaser...
...masculine attention so dear to her sex. Instead of making the most of her gifts and making her defects as unnoticeable as possible, she subordinated the former to an exaggeration of the latter. Her husband had "struck oil" in Pennsylvania, and had then subsided into a submissive check-signer and reader of the daily papers, a mythical kind of power-behind-the-throne known as "Mrs. De Sorosis' husband...