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...order forcing them to show their accounts to a comptroller or to submit to his investigation of their demands for appropriations. Hence it is understandable that the first comptroller of the budget needed to be a fighting man with no tender feelings on the subject. President Harding evidently bore this in mind when he appointed "Hell and Maria" Dawes...
...This last work, the "Elements of Chess", was the second book on the subject published in America and reflects the revolutionary sentiments of the times in the suggestion that more democratic names be used for the pieces than those of "king", "queen" and "knight" which they then bore...
...people is that out of the bowels of their own cleverness they spin a web in which hangs nothing but dreary, dessicated warnings to us not to be so devilish clever. When a man has reached the height where he can prove beyond a doubt that Meredith was a bore and Burke a soporific, he has also demonstrated to us common people why he will never write anything himself. We quite agree with the professor on these matters. Seriousness means enjoyment...
From various bits of evidence, and the reports in the university paper, we managed to piece together a plausible story. The society seems to have been composed largely of men who bore a grudge against someone; for example, ardent sun-worshippers would often join it because they believed it would be a means of punishing moon-worshippers; and similarly moon-worshippers would join in the hope of vengeance on star-worshippers. There seems to have been no definite program, no set of principles which all members acknowledged, only the common tie of dissatisfaction and hatred. Many students in the university...
...great value of the motion picture as an educational medium has long been recognized but very little used. There are very few reels in existence which are of true educational value and yet sufficiently interesting so as not to bore the audience to tears. The Yale authorities, however, have decided to go into competition with the "vamp", and not allow the great possibilities of the cinema to any longer go to waste...