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That was all. The mighty Missourian had not got much?just a wee bit. But the ink was not yet dry on the "extras" when General Andrews was being shaped in the public eye as John Barleycorn Redivivus. Quoth, for example, Senator McKellar of Tennessee...
Standing in a dense crowd at Lafayette Mall on the Common, Boston, an untidy-looking man with a bundle of magazines under his arm put a 50¢ piece between his teeth, bit it hard and grinned. In front of him stood a preacherman whom some recognized as Rev. Jason Franklin Chase, Secretary of the New England Watch and Ward Society, guardian of Boston morals. Nearby waited a distinguished gentleman whom some recognized as Arthur Garfield Hays, lawyer, defender of John Scopes, of the Countess Cathcart. And everybody stared unfavorably at the untidy man with the magazines. He had just committed...
...because he had used his last cent on the taxi. He is very generus. So your old girl friends rates a rill Harvard dance and tries out the green tafeta on the halls of lerning. Ha. Ha. It is about time that Harvard woke up and got a little bit colleege. This having a brother what goes to a correspondents school rooks the works. There dances don't come often, ha, ha, and a girl has to have some education in her life. Which makes me think (don't laff at that) about Mister Guffblawin. He gets worse and worse...
...Still Life"?a bottle of wine, a bit of cheese, a dish of fruit?was damaged. Jean Louis Forain, of Paris, had painted it 50 years ago, lived with it, domesticated it. Sardonic, he had refused all prices for it. But gentle Homer Saint-Gaudens of Pittsburgh had won permission to exhibit the picture. Old Forain let it travel to the Carnegie International Exhibition, Manhattan...
What then is one's surprise and, if he has a bit of the conservative in him, one's pleasure to find that the former president of Amherst has really departed very little from policies for educational development already conceived, and in some cases practiced by the faculty and student body of Harvard! Indeed even the most casual reading of this article forces comparison with the Report of the Student Council's Committee on Education. For in many respects that report suggests a similar attempt to maintain the traditional facilities for the acquisition of culture and the development of intelligence...