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With such a background young Cannon went to law school in Cincinnati and thence to Danville, Ill., a land of Lincoln legends, destined in another half century to grow big with Cannon legends. There he embraced Republicanism and carried it through 46 years' service in the House. His diversion, he said, was: "Raising the tariff in the daytime and raising the ante at night...
...gleaming pageant advanced in academic rhythm, most steps firm, assured, a few a trifle embarrassed by glory, to the chancel. There were hoods of scarlet, hoods of green, hoods of orange, purple, blue, set off by touches of spotless white, the whole toned down to harmony by the austere background of a white granite pile. Among the robe wearers were 40 university, college and seminary presidents, including two women, Mary E. Woolley (Mt. Holyoke), and Ellen F. Pendleton (Wellesley). In a gown a cardinal hue, symbol of University of Glasgow honors, was the Reverend Henry Sloane Coffin...
Evidently modern Paris did not offer a sympathetic background for writing an epic of California...
...chorus. Their larger sisters make up in voice for their lack of beauty. George Jean Nathan will never award any pretzels to these frauds for looks, but despite the New Yorkese twang to their voices they lend weight to the choruses, and their singing forms and excellent background to the men's voices...
With such a background of bad feeling the Princeton team is "out to get Harvard". Irritated by its own complex, which is accentuated by the superciliousness of certain Harvard gaucheries, it wants to knock this "superior" person, John Harvard, into the middle of next week. That it can be done the CRIMSON is ready to admit. That it must be done in the way and with the spirit now evident the CRIMSON deplores sincerely...