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...furnished by the Administrative Board of the School, are: Albert Palmer 5E.S., G. G. Tunell Jr. 1G., M. S. Bromwell 4E.S., L. B. Curtis 4E.S., Lawrence Litchfield Jr. 4E.S., W. J. Mean 4E.S., E. P. Nelson 4E.S., J. G. Peter 4E.S., Morris Stone 4E.S., G. W. Tower 4E.S., Charles Weller 4E.S., E. F. Porter 3E.S., W. G. Thomas 3E.S., and W. T. Wintringham 3E.S...
...Saint Paul's Catholic Club of the University will hold a dance at the Copley-Plaza Hotel on Monday evening. April 2, Dancing will be from 9 to 2 o'clock. F. J. Weller 1G.B. is in charges of the arrangements for the dance...
While attacking American English becomes one of the standard duties of distinguished guests, an English professor has risen to the defense of the cockney used by Mrs. Gam and Samuel Weller. Instead of being the immorial personifications of London's proletarial, both spoke in the purest English style, which a few centurles earlier would have been positively patrician...
...article quotes at length from diaries and letters written by Lords and Ladies of various periods. One letter begins dearest creature", another describes the "Horried torter" of a lady's dying lap-dog. Sam Weller's "wessel of wrath" finds full vindication in a diary of the sixteenth century which discusses "welwets, wacabonds and women" with no hesitation whatsoever. "Ojus", too, and "sparrowgrass" are not only in common use but are even preferred by the standard dictionary of 1790. "Cockney", continues the article, "that noble blend of East Mercian, Kentish, and East Anglican, which was written by Chaucer, printed...
...elimination on the basis of scholarship is no more effective. Too many men enter college with high grades only to prove themselves unprepared to make the most of their opportunities by graduating "viser but not vider" as Mr. Weller expressed it. Others who barely pass their C.E.E.B.'s become the outstanding men in their class not only in social affairs but scholastically as well. As a remedy for this difficulty Columbia has instituted mental tests for admission and the Harvard Business School has also been experimenting with them in an effort to provide an equable basis on which to work...