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...territory would be lulled into inactivity. Unfortunately such a method of enforcement would work only with almost complete disarmament the world over, when it would be scarcely more necessary than a police squad in Paradise. The first necessity it to attain our international Paradise, after which we can bother about not losing it. Milton to the contrary, we cannot storm it with petards...
...Authoress Millay played the Princess, took many a curtain call. Next year, as a real grown-up actress, she played the same part in Manhattan's arty Provincetown Playhouse. Life began to go fast for Authoress Millay. She lost the manuscript of her play, was too busy to bother about it. Thirteen years later she found it again, among some old papers. Easily most popular poetess of the U. S., Edna St. Vincent Millay could afford now to foist off on her sympathetic public almost any callow piece of juvenilia. But The Princess Marries the Page is surprisingly, delightfully...
...Bowdoin. Most U. S. colleges protect themselves by having their financial officers bonded, just as business houses do. Some colleges do not bother. Last week Bowdoin College at Brunswick, Maine was glad it had bothered. For the past six years Bowdoin's bursar has been John Coolidge Thalheimer, quiet and popular, a member of Delta Upsilon, who after graduation from Bowdoin became clerk under the college treasurer in 1923 and three years later bursar. Father of two, Mr. Thalheimer was divorced last year for "cruel and abusive treatment." was ordered to pay $150 a month alimony for three years...
...Latin American countries, college students start political revolutions. In continental Europe they riot politically, go to jail. In England they debate intelligently at the Oxford Union, stand for Parliament, take government seriously. In the U. S., many a college student does not even bother to vote...
...felt over "Copey's" change of residence, there seemed in it a larger significance. It marked the passing of a style. A newer generation of pedagogs, at Harvard as elsewhere, has eschewed picturesqueness for briskness, practicality and scholarship. Younger savants have degrees aplenty. Charles Townsend Copeland did not bother; the A. B. he earned in 1882 was enough for him. It was fun to be cantankerous and crotchety, teaching Harvard men to write good prose, scaring them when they were late or noisy. The scaring sometimes stuck, too. Shambling Heywood Broun once went. up to Cambridge to report...