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...clad Drayton Manor, whereon a halo of fame has grown for more than a century. Drayton Manor, as all good Britishers know, was the home of Sir Robert Peel (1788-1850), than whom there was no more revered statesman in the 19th Century. His ancestors, sprung from Yorkshire yeoman stock, potent in a rising industrial era, Tory to the core, saw in him the future leader of the Tories. A scholar and a football player, he entered Parliament. A smart young man, he established the Irish constabulary and the London police.* But some say that he disappointed his ancestors...
Today at 9 o'clock the Vagabond will attend Professor Yeoman's lecture at Harvard 2 on "State Control Over interstate Commerce," of particular interest because of the claims of Professor W. Z. Ripley recently published in the Atlantic Monthly that all corporations engaged in any form of interstate commerce are required by an old statute annually to fill out financial statements income accounts and reports of operation for the benefit of the Federal Trade Commission...
...into the game intact with Gross, Chase, and Hamlen performing. Last year the second line rated on a par with the first, and, with one change, Tudor for Harding, seems to have more scoring ability than the regulars. Scott and Zarakov are fast and aggressive. Durant is ready for yeoman duty on the forward line...
...clock this morning Professor Yeoman's will take up the question of due process of law and the deprivation of property in Harvard 2. At the same time Professor Elton is talking on the Memoirs and Letters of the time of George II upstairs in Harvard 6. One might easily be tempted to divide the hour between the two rooms if this did not entail losing a large part of it on a steep and creaky stairway...
...started as a tragical actor, but that his voice drew him into the musical field. "I have sometimes nurtured an ambition to make my audience weep, and of all the roles I have played on the stage, my favorite is that of Jack Point in Gilbert and Sullivan's 'Yeoman of the Guard', a strolling jester who dies of a broken heart. I revel in that little touch of pathos...