Word: texts
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...most attractive feature of the autobiography will be the marginal illustrations, reproduced from sketches of the author's which are in the possession of the Library. Some of these were made by the artist while on holiday in Derbyshire, and the sketches referring to matter in the text of the autobiography have been secured for the new volume. The compilers have had a wealth of material from which to draw, as the Library possesses most of Crane's sketchbooks, in the Caroline Miller Parker Collection...
...Harvard man gets his learning from the careful study of text-books; the Michigan student more often obtains his knowledge from the study of the co-eds in the classroom. And they are worth looking at. Be it known that the presence of several thousand female students at the University of Michigan is the greatest factor differentiating it from Harvard. For there is endless social life within the college. Whereas Harvard men get much of their excitement from rushing in to Boston, and attending the "deb" dances, the Wolverine undergraduate stays at home...
...text of President Lowell's statement follows...
Widows. The Ministry of Health (Parliamentary Secretary, Miss Lawrence) issued the text of an amendment to the Widows Pensions Act of 1925. If passed, the amendment will broaden the pension system to include an additional half-million widows. Complex, the measure teems with such provisos as that if a woman is between 55 and 70, and if her husband died before Jan. 1, 1926, then the lucky widow will receive ten shillings a week ($2.50) for the rest of her life...
With nice diplomatic mummery the game was played last week of pretending that British Foreign Secretary "Uncle Arthur" Henderson was sending out from London invitations to the great naval powers. He received the Quaker-Scotch text from Washington, dutifully had four fair copies made, despatched them to Washington, Paris, Rome, Tokyo. A further bit of mummery was to delay publication of the U. S. State Department's "acceptance" until a few hours after Scot MacDonald left Washington (see above...