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...hazard the guess, however, that even extra-curriculum activities will disappear within a comparatively short time. Princeton, at least, is becoming more and more of a student's college where not only does curriculum come first, but extra times goes to following out a favorite bit of erudite research-- to reading or to writing. Extra-curriculum activities and over-organization go hand in hand. We would not be surprised to see them fade away before many years have gone by. --The Princetonian...
...Christian Science Monitor published a bit of correspondence dated "Cairo, Jan. 1." This is in accordance with the theory of the Monitor that anything is news until it is known. The specific result savored of the ludicrous. The correspondence gave an account of the activities of William Eugene (Pussyfoot) Johnson in Egypt. At the time of its publication Mr. Johnson had been in the U. S. for several days, had attended a convention of the Anti-Saloon League, had seen the President (TIME...
...long ago a congress of bishops in Texas etc., etc." But it were better to say that there is much talk of religion in the air (granted that the troubles of Messrs. Coolidge, Fall, Denby and Daugherty have largely replaced it for the moment). To look back a bit, there was the Heresy number of the "Advocate." Then "The Fool" with his rather silly Overcoat Hall came to town--at the theatre. Mrs. Fisher rendered a superb translation of Papini's "Life of Christ" and for a time that was in the foreground. The turmoil started by the bishops...
...Register has the same outward form and general plan as the 1922-1923 book. It is dignified in appearance, handy in size, and extraordinarily complete in content. The material is well arranged and systematically indexed so that the desired bit of information may be the more easily found. The printing is clear and pleasing, the illustrations good, and the map helpful...
...office of The Fairbanks News Miner (Alaska) is a bit of type, handset there last Summer. The editor of the News-Miner is going to bring it to this country and give it to William Allen White, editor of The Emporia Gazette. Mr. White will present the type to the Associated Press at the annual meeting of that body in April. Why all this fuss about a bit of type? It was the last type ever set by Warren Gamaliel Harding...