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...late U. S. Senator David B. Hill, on meagre savings and smart financing. High-minded but not pious, Publisher Gannett built himself a great newspaper fortune not alone by the cleanness and honesty of his papers, of which he is so proud, but also by shrewdness, good sense and uncommon business nerve...
...second case, containing the private collection of Nicholas Sever, from 1716 to 1826 a tutor at Harvard College, at that time considered a position of great honor, has been loaned by his descendents. It is uncommon in that the 30 or more pieces are still intact, with the exception of a silver twoquart tankard, which is the exact replica of the one which is mentioned in his original inventory. Chafingdishes, candlesticks, salvers, porringers, a teapot, and a pair of salt-cellars complete the collection...
...Wolf (Universal). In the last years of the last century, when U. S. millionaires were relatively uncommon, one of the richest, most erratic, most spectacular was Hetty Green. Starting life as Harriet Howland Robinson of New Bedford, Mass., she inherited nine million dollars from her father, a ship-owning Quaker. She astonished her contemporaries first by her penny-pinching, next by her marriage at 33 to "Spendthrift Green" who riotously squandered a million dollars of his own and died in a cheap hotel room paid for by his wife. Hetty Green raised a son and daughter, multiplied her nine million...
...relation between Science and Faith, he said: "In the old days men had made a wholly artificial and irrational distinction between the natural and the supernatural. Events which were sufficiently common and familiar were thought of as natural, and events which were uncommon and not understood were called supernatural. The idea of the uniformity and repeatability of events abolished completely all such childlike distinctions. All events without exception are worthy of study and of attempts at understanding, because Nature is assumed to be dependable, not capricious...
...member of the Harvard Faculty Club who took a spelling test recently given there. There was not a single word amongst the 40 that was not misspelled by some one of the educators. The words ranged from such every-day ones as "all right" and "niece," to more uncommon words such as "desiccate...