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Rumors are wildly flying again of a political union between Austria and Germany. Considering the difficulty with which Bismarck ejected Austria from the Confederation such talk is astounding. Gone is his empire; gone the House which he patiently raised to great power; and now his arch-enemy Austria reappears amid the fold from which he drove it with blood and iron. But the wheel of fate which has crushed the works of his hand has likewise crushed Austria. Stripped of its power, its land, its resources, the once proud state looks to a weak Germany as its last hope...
...first four rounds. Savagely he tore into McTigue, slashed him around the ropes with rights and lefts, made small men stand up in their chairs. The next three rounds were not so fast; the fighters were listless. The bell rang for the eighth, both boxers dragged languidly into action amid a salvo of boos. More flaccid pommeling, clinching, pushing. A raucous fan began to sing Every Hour I Knead Thee, was silenced. In the last two rounds, McTigue feebly rallied. Referee Lewis gave the victory to little Walker. McTigue kept his title, as the boxing law of New Jersey does...
Literature: Amid the serene literary chorus of his day, Howells' steady and somewhat dismal drone occasioned much neck-craning in the audience. His was the first-and persists the truest-note of realism that the U. S. has heard. "Dullness," he said, "is dear to me." Beside realism as we have it today, that of Howells pales, of course, is called drabness; but at the time, his refusal to succumb to the chivalrous romanticism his contemporaries had inherited from England made him, roughly, the Sinclair Lewis...
...hall had its share in educating men. Many have debated just what men get from college. That they get pleasant memories everyone agrees. And if amid those memories the pictures of lecture room and class room are less distinct than memories of personalities and groups, that is human nature. Memorial Hall provided a memory. Many thousands look back to it, see its long aisle again in their mind's eye, and feel thankful for the memory...
Covetousness stands mute, an abashed and haggard youth, amid the stony evidence of his larcenies...