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...that the name of Abou Ben Adhem "led all the rest." Now, with Caroline Norton, one reads about the "soldiers of the Legion" who "lay dying in Algiers," and then he turns to Charles Lamb's "Dissertation on Roast Pig." How many thousands of youngsters have been fired by Webster's "Supposed Speech of John Adams" and how many have laughed over Hawthorne's "Rill from the Town Pump...
Wielding the gavel will be Frederic A. Webster '35, president of the Phillips Brooks House Association; E. Francis Bowditch '35, president of the Student Council will expound its aims and activities; for the CRIMSON, President John H. Morison '35 will carry the torch; Francis D. Moore '35, president of the Lampoon, Howard H. Mason '35, president of the Advocate, John C. Haggott '35, president of the Dramatic Club, and Henry Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, president of the Mountaineering Club, will speak for their respective organizations. William G. Kirby '35, president of the Glee Club will speak both for the Pierian...
...first-rate rivals. Funk & Wagnalls' Standard (cost: $16) features new spellings, has had for its editor since 1914 the most famed U. S. lexicographer. Frank Horace Vizetelly, 70. But most U. S. citizens still settle their bets by ''looking it up in Webster...
...year George Washington made peace with George III a young Hartford, Conn.† lawyer named Noah Webster (no kin to the later Daniel) published a spelling book. In 1807 he set his great jaw, sat down to write an up-to-date dictionary of the English language. The spelling book, a best seller, supported him for the 21 years it took to pen definitions of 70,000 words. The first Webster was published in 1828 and its author lived long enough to revise it in 1840. When he died in 1843 G. & C. Merriam of Springfield, Mass, bought the unsold...
...Mallinckrodt MB23 Classical Philology 45 Sever 29 Economics 6a Harvard 5 Economics 17 Sever 7 Engin. Sciences 7c Pierce 302 English 1a New Lect. Hall English 2a New Lect. Hall English 3c Memorial Hall French 6 Professor Morize, Sec. 1 Memorial Hall Professor Allard, Sec. 2 Memorial Hall Dr. Webster, Sec. 3 Memorial Hall Mr. Penny, Sec. 4 Memorial Hall Geology 23b Sever 9 German 28 Sever 29 Greek 2 Sever 29 History 15 Harvard 6 History 17 Harvard 3 History of Science 1 Sever 17 Mathematics A VI (see footnote) Dr. Seidel, Sec. 1 Geol. Lect...