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...poem which was an expression of gratitude to the foreigners who had adopted and befriended the refugee peoples of Russia. About 4.30 the ladies of the community served refreshments to the children. When they returned to the auditorium the Christmas trees were lighted and Santa Claus arrived with a toy for each child. All who had a share in entertaining these poor orphan "kiddies" felt a peculiar joy as they saw them go away saw them go away happy, clutching a doll or a toy or a book...
...professorship in North America. In 1891 he became director of the Semitic Museum. In 1906 he went to Samaria to undertake excavations there, and discovered the earliest specimens of writing ever found in Palestine. Four years later he assumed the Hancock professorship upon the retirement of his colleague, Professor Toy. He has given courses at the University in the Hebrew and Assyrian languages and in Old Testament History, and has long been recognized as a leading authority in his field...
...three long years of waiting, the Senior Class will today receive collectively certain coins of the realm which in days of yore they contributed as individuals for one of those Senior Pienics, now but a memory. For what changes time has wrought! Is not the currency inflated like a toy balloon, that it might be fulfilled which was spake by Professor Taussig, "If prices rise, the debtor gains and the creditor loses"? You may, indeed, "take back the half that thou gavest"; but how little does it represent in the way of "consumable goods" for senior picnics...
...some songs and jokes of the Al Jolson type, was enthusiastically received. Other entertainers are Tozart in an original act as "The Vagabond Artist," Maryan Vochi, who does some skillful too-dancing, Aleen Bronson, in a clever school-girl part, Hobson and Beatty, Finlay and Hill, and Mile, La Toy's canine models...
...most gigantic factory on earth. It is doing a job that would stagger any captain of industry that ever lived. With one set of machines it is turning out many and widely different products. Tell a manufacturer of concrete mixers that his present machinery is also expected to produce toy ballons, tooth paste, ladies' shoes, incandescent lights and derby hats and he would throw up his hands in horror. Yet that is exactly the composite demand that critics are making of our colleges. --Boston Transcript...