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...evolved into stable institutions with trustees and bursars, with endowments of tradition and funds, with buildings upon which ivy has grown and around which affection has gathered, with 'counts' for admission and semester hours for graduation. All this progress (this progress from Abelard to ivy) Dr. Meiklejohn proposes to abandon...
...Denver, John W. Davis, going into new country, began to use new weapons, although he did not abandon the oil scandals, the Republican tariff. His first topic was irrigation and reclamation. He cited the mis- fortune which has overtaken many settlers on irrigation projects; told how, in many cases, settlers were in dire distress because the Government's estimated cost of reclaiming their lands had been greatly increased by the time the actual project was completed. He quoted the Republican platform which recommended the curtailing of irrigation projects to prevent overproduction, and then exclaimed...
...Telefonica Nacional is a Spanish concern, run with Spanish capital. But control rests with I. T. & T., which will act as its technical and financial adviser. Spain is the first European country to abandon a state-owned system for International Telephone & Telegraph management. Yet negotiations are already under way for similar "deals" in France and Italy, and still other European countries may also fall into line...
...sweep over his whole waistcoat as he remarked: "For the shallow delights of matrimony and opera I have no courage." This spirit runs through his music, which makes no compromises with the sugary "lollypop-school." There are but few exceptions to this: His Hungarian Dances are played, with excessive abandon, by every vaudeville violinist and every cafe-orchestra in Paris, and his Wiegenlied is listed in the catalog of every gramo-phone-record mannfacturer. But the bulk of Brahms remains "musicians' music." This is particularly true of his chamber music, classical forms to be executed by small combinations...
...briefly, making the formal notification. Then Mr. Coolidge came forward to make his speech. A fat little man in the front row (name unknown) appointed himself cheerleader and led the applause at appropriate intervals, waving handkerchiefs in both hands. At the close, Secretary Hughes, inspired by the moment to abandon his reserve, came forward, waved his hands and called on the audience for three cheers...