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Toward the end of the 18th Century, a country gentleman of Surrey, England, used to argue with his son concerning the perfectability of society. Quoting his optimistic French friend. Jean Jacques Rousseau, the father would say: "Liberty, equality, fraternity." The son. whose name was the Rev. Thomas Robert Malthus, would reply, amiably enough: "Pish-posh! Very pretty. But society will never be happy so long as it permits itself to multiply more rapidly than its means of sustinence." Impressed by his son's views, Malthus Sr. encouraged Malthus Jr. to pen An Essay on the Principle of Population...
...Liberal Club elected its officers for 1925 at its annual business meeting recently. The following men were elected; President, Chester Tevis Lane '26 of Richmond, Surrey, England; Secretary, Garrett Mattingly 1G. of Allegan, Michigan; Treasurer, John Warren Knedler 1L. of Moscow, Pennsylvania...
...most interesting of the posters to be placed on exhibition is one dated November 19, 1838, and advertising the production of "Oliver Twist" at the Surrey Theatre of London. Dickens' always disliked watching his own plays on the stage and seldom attended them. On this occasion, however, his friend Mr. Foster persuaded him to go to the play, but before the show was half over Dickens could stand it no longer; so he slid down onto the floor of his box and remained under the seats with only his head showing until the performance was over...
Guttie Balls. At Woking, on the Surrey dunes, England amused herself with her annual investigation into the idiosyncrasies of the old- fashioned gutta percha ball. A notable group of players, including long-hitting Cyril Tolley, " ancient " Bernard Darwin, Roger Wethered, C. V. L. Hooman, E. W. E. Holderness, conducted experiments. Wethered managed to hew out a 77. Tolley, who can drive over 300 yards with abnormal rubber cored ball, did little better than 200 with his gutta percha pellet...
Died. Angus Patrick Bowes-Lyon, 24, first cousin of the Duchess of York, suicide, supposedly because of the breaking of his engagement to Miss Freda Parsons, at Ripley, Surrey, England...