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...dormitories across the river, the Business School has installed a branch library in the unused dining room of Morris Hall. About 500 of the most commonly-used books in the Business School courses have been placed on the shelves, and new additions are constantly being made, which will shortly swell the number of volumes to more than...
...Father of His Country was a swell from his 16th year on. He consorted with English lords, rode to hounds, learned to love foppery and all the elegancies, became a past master of dancing, of gambling, polite drinking and exquisite flirtation. He shone in everything but the successful making of love...
Many flocked to hear him, saw a stuffy little man, like a bantam rooster, come on the stage, saw him swell out his bosom, and open his mouth. They shut their eyes then, listened to melting outbursts rich in melody, sung in the approved Italian manner, lyrically, lovingly. They opened their eyes to see him lead on a little Italian child, ten-year-old Rina, his daughter. She played an accompaniment for him correctly, laboriously. They heard him sing again without distraction, heard him take perilous notes bravely, truly, cling to them fondly, heard pianissimos incredibly tender, applauded, many...
...booters smothered the Dean Academy eleven by the decisive score of 6 to 1 last Saturday afternoon. Five of the Freshmen's points were amassed during the first period, and the forward line missed several chances to swell the total during the second half...
...only the pope remains cloistered. Kings, queens, saints, quacks, and fiction writers swell the waiting list at Ellis Island. Though their critics tell them "fair is foul; they continue empiricists. And in so doing they lose the charm of regal remoteness to take their common place in the Sunday supplements of the prints with the retired wives of senile plutocrats, the defenders of ward politics, and the leading in dies in musical comedies. Nor is this to be wondered at. There is no reason why such trivial handicaps should force this continued residence among American tourists. Arrived here; Queen Marie...