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...undergraduates was, "Remember, the eyes of Texas are upon you." A collegian [John Lang Sinclair- ED. J to express irreverent student sentiment toward the repetitious phrase, wrote certain words to a popular air, and loudly a group of young men-keeping themselves well back in the shadows to avoid identification-serenaded the president with them one night. They harmonized : The eyes of Texas are upon...
...although Marian Nixon and Ralph Bellamy are the stars instead of Farrell & Gaynor, is in the tradition of Daddy Long Legs and Delicious. Cinemaddicts who would be unable to enjoy watching Marian Nixon ask a horse a question and then seeing the horse shake its head, should remember to avoid Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm...
...altogether unfounded. There is no beatitude which promises the United States' Treasury to the drafted-into-arms, nor was there any heroic self-sacrifice on the part of the most of the men who formed the American Expeditionary Forces. Many of them were drafted, and used every expedient to avoid service. Others of the "veterans" never saw a transport. They have only the precedent of Civil War and Spanish-American War survivors to give them a moral basis for their demand, and thinking people agree that such a precedent should be broken...
...single course in the Classics in translation would supply the need. Such a survey, covering the principal writers of ancient Greece and Rome, could, if conducted in a proper manner, avoid many of the defects of survey courses in literature. It should not consist merely in memorizing the literary and stylistic characteristics of the men considered, and it would be devoted to the matter and method rather than to the language of the writers. The authors might be considered as an expression of classic civilization, or they might be read with principal attention to their affect on modern writers...
...favor of a plan by which the world's big export companies would buy Russia's exports for the next ten years. By then Russia should be consuming all the petroleum she produces. By distributing the present Russian surplus among all companies, world price-wars would be avoided. Hope was that Russia could be kept from producing for export any more than she exported last year. Another subject much discussed was the allocation of territories to avoid such com petition as exists in England where Russia has invaded Sir Henri's favorite market. Since the Russians...