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...moon rode high and bright over Turkey one night last week as Islam downed its evening meal. The peasants in the little villages finished their last prostrations toward Mecca, and went out for a breath of the sharp night. Suddenly someone bit a piece out of the moon. The peasants knew instantly what that meant...
There is a bit of Rosicrucian metaphysics in this picture, but love, not it, is the transforming force...
...little disappointed at The Crimson because it usually presents a rather fair and intelligent appraisal of the subject it writes about. But this editorial impresses us as such a biased bit of observation and evaluation that it seems to lose all of its effect as an intelligent criticism of the President's speech...
...very sprightly, to breakfast on bran and jam and muffins and thence to stroll along the River whereupon I did meet--and we did marvel at the weather; after which preliminaries we took to examining the morning news. "Experiments have been conducted by Probation authorities," one encouraging bit did read, "and as a result it has been demonstrated that 'bad boys' are no different from other boys, except that the former have been caught." And I thought to myself how wonderful is science in our modern...
...foot to the Square where I did browse in Brooks' Shop and did chance to come upon a most fine edition of the Rubaiyat which I bought for very little and was much pleased to get. And thence to the Barber's and to read a bit. I did immediately note this...