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...sheltered Duke has for the time being escaped such untoward events; but he may yet pass his responsions and live to find out that he is a person of no importance with the university town of Oxford, except, perhaps, to the tradesman and a few fawners, despite his magnificent titles and his 49,900 acres of land...
...characters flood the pages. There is the demeure girl of many lovers. There is the quiet old gentleman whose wife proved to be a dope flend. There is the tender-hearted but masterful young lady whose happiness, which consisted in reforming others, was inevitably followed by tragedy when some untoward incident broke her spell and the convert, be it lover or friend or fellow employee, backslid. It is in the retailing of these experiences that Mrs. Woodward can lay a claim to the attention of people generally. Her book is written with a certain ardor which seems to go always...
...choke the freedom of the rest their numbers should be reduced. Commuting students are an example of this class, racial groups another. There is a danger inherent in the plan, however. Harvard's most precious quality is her heterogeneity. The balance of elements must be maintained, but an untoward restriction of any given group would be as disastrous, more disastrous even, than no restriction at all. There is no atmosphere more enervating than that of the college whose members approximate a single type. The function of the University is to produce gentlemen, in the best sense of the term...
...joyous cackling. Aged financiers assured one another over chopsticks* and rice that the Golden Sun of Japan will soon rise upon a yen restored to the gold standard. Meanwhile Japanese government officials called attention to the fact that the embargo against exporting silver from Japan was recently lifted without untoward results...
...Lynett of the Scranton Times brought the conference together by a plan for a five year conference together by a plan for a five year contract at present wages, subject to successful negotiations at the end of two years. Because it protects against untoward wage reductions, the miners quickly accepted this scheme as a basis for conference. But the operators now object that it would freeze the wage scale, and are busy explaining that their return to conference does not mean acquiescence in Mr. Lynett's project...