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...reform neigh the world as a whole nor any particular par of it. The setting of the story is in London, the time the years following immediately after the war. For characters it has many who stand out shapely as individuals, chief among them being Mott Lane, a boy from the English country-side who turns radical and, in theory at least. Revolt against state of society the brought about the war. But the author concerns herself little with his radical tendencies for she is writing tale of love, of lightness, and of whimsically, not a treatise on Bolshevism...
...proposition in sot forth in a recent letter to the "New York Tribune" by a "professional man of limited income" who desires to obtain "educational insurance" for his one-year-old son. Briefly, he wants a renewable term policy of $5000, to be paid in suitable installments when the boy reaches college age. In case the boy dies before reaching eighteen, no money is to be paid; but if, having started, he fails to complete his college course, the balance due is to be paid to a designated third person twenty-five years from the date of the policy...
...America's pet hobbies is "pledging". The average American gives little thought to signing a pledge, and so this process of extracting promises has become a much-abused one. The pledge-making a mania has not stopped with the Boy Scouts and the Sunday school but has found its way into prospective legislation in the form of a bill now before the New York Assembly which proposes that public school teachers be required to take an oath of allegiance to the Constitution. The purpose of the bill is to eliminate communistic and other extreme propaganda threatening our present system...
This class has its analogy at the University; the workers who are useful members of the undergraduate society, and are fairly prosperous in the commodities that are of value in undergraduate life. This group might be called that of the "tired college boy." It is an unfortunate fact that in the spirit of restlessness that prevails in this community, many of these "t. c. b."'s lose sight of the educational advantages that surround them; they become business men, tired business men, even before they are out of college. They are paving their way to worldly success, but are they...
...first match against the Previdence Tennis Club was the only one which the team lost. In the singles, William T. Tilden, world's champion, defeated Captain L. A. de Turenne '21, 6-4, 6-4; but in the doubles de Turenne and Fenno defeated J. D. E. Jones, national boy's champion, and Chase, former national doubles champion, by the unusual score of 18-16, 6-0. The final score was Providence 6, University...