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...Kansas City. When the Convention begins he will be attending the graduation exercises at Marietta College in his native Marietta, Ohio. That is where he went just before he was nominated in 1924. Mr. Lowden had refused that nomination. Mr. Dawes instantly accepted it. It is improbable that that bit of history will even paraphrase itself this year. Yet it is also historic that the Vice President's relative, William Dawes, rode on the same errand as Paul Revere. He took a different course. He came to fame much later. But measurements show that Dawes outrode Revere...
...much skill that it does not appear to be obvious "literary effort." In addition to this story, is another very acceptable one by George C. Heck, Jr. One might wish that he had not ended it quite so abruptly, but it is, nevertheless, a very enjoyable tale. A delightful bit of nonsense, "The Ring and the Booklet" by Philip Nicholas, Jr., and the second instalment of the gruesome "Murder in 'B' Entry" complete the fiction of the number...
There is one article in this issue that might well have been omitted, in the opinion of this reviewer. Mr. Robinson contributes an essay on Carl Sandburg which seems more in the nature of a bit of scholarly research than material for the Advocate. The article is beyond doubt well written, but it bears an atmosphere suspiciously reminiscent of reports and tutorial labors. The familiar essay seems more in keeping with the spirit of the Advocate than any scholarly treatise on the subject of one of our modern poets. But then, the editors are apparently seeking to publish a well...
...publish this month: "The Eternal Lovers" surely deserves the confidence placed in it by the editors. The treatment of the sonnet form is unusual and effective. The subject matter is conventional but not trite, and the poem possesses lines of splendid Imagery. It is a very competent bit of work...
...melancholy or to his rouge." Another more affable young guest, one Hergesell, squired a buxom blonde beauty, but left her a few moments to dance playfully with lovely wistful Lorie. Aged five, Lorie was the professor's favorite child who had been allowed to stay up for a bit of the party. Content that the child should be made so happy, the old history professor wandered off for his evening walk, wondering if his enduring tenderness for Lorie was an evil contradiction of his sound intellectual belief that nothing was eternal but the past, that is to say, death. Pondering...