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...That yon are sad about a girl...
Respect has mingled with curiosity as, through the years since the War, the U. S. public has watched a roundheaded little Princeton professor with thick spectacles travel hither & yon through the world as physician to sick money systems. Princeton has loaned him freely to various nations since 1912, but long before (in 1903), he helped the U. S. Philippine Commission start the islands off on the gold standard. Since then he has probed the problems of Egypt, Mexico, Guatemala, Colombia, Union of South Africa, Chile, Poland, Ecuador, Bolivia, China, Panama and Peru. In 1925 he analyzed the economic ills...
...members of the Class of 1935 are led hither and yon, meekly following the dictates of their instruction books, hearing the gratuitous advice and stories which will everywhere be given them during the next few days, few can realize what changes have taken place even under the eyes of present upperclassmen. When 1932 was welcomed to Harvard with a parallel series of gatherings and entertainments, there was no House Plan; Freshmen eagerly sought to live in Smith, Standish, Gore, or McKinlock; there was an Appleton Chapel, and Wigglesworth was non-existent. Architecturally, Cambridge could hardly be recognized as its present...
...called unto him his disciples, and saith unto them,'Verily I say unto yon, That this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury...
...estate, where they hang the Prince's dogs one by one (including lovely Svietlana!) and then hang the Prince and rape the maid and after ransacking the house, set it on fire. Life is then all confused and hungry and bitter and terrifying. Siedoi travels hither and yon-"His Excellency the Inspector of Railroads" he comes to be known as- until one day Fedka, who has withdrawn from the topsy-turvy People's world to live and hunt in the forest with Katok, finds his old friend Siedoi lying under a bush, staring at the morning sun with...