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...plan of the Education Committee of the Student Council would not force philosophy upon uncongenial minds. It could not. What the committee does suggest is that underclassmen gain some appreciation of the land they are entering before they study the brass on its gates. These freshmen have by their coming to Harvard implied that they are willing to attempt some philosophical appreciation of their world and of their place in their world. So the philosophy course, given in the manner suggested by the committee, a course in which some few great attempts at meta-physical and ethical understanding are interestingly...
...brass bell yapped; a siren hooted like a gull. Police-chief Richard 0. Zober of Passaic in a red flivver. "Disperse that crowd!" He took a metal-covered sphere from his pocket; threw it; threw two more; gray gas sidled into the dusk. Tear bombs! . . . More bells, more hooting. A fire engine. Another. Enormous silver rods of water battered the hatless women, the men who had no overcoats. The crowd eddied, broke, swirled down the street. Policemen dashed after, clubbing backs, heads, shoulders...
...black-bearded man wearing a cocked hat and displaying an immense brass shield called last week at the Hotel Chambord in the Champs-Elysees, Paris. His impressive uniform proclaimed him a huissier, a process-server. With dignity he delivered to one of the hotel clerks a paper serving notice upon the abdicated Crown Prince Carol of Roumania that his first (morganatic) wife, Zizi Lambrino, had arrived at Paris from Bucharest and started suit to recover 10 million fanes from him, avowedly on the grounds that she is still his wife. Zizi. It. was recalled that the Roumanian Government has sufficiently...
...trustees of Johns Hopkins University were invited to consider an idea that was most unusual for this day and age of higher education. A vigorous speaker with a long lean jaw and rugged physique, a vigorous, practical man, among whose favorite expressions is "Let's get down to brass tacks," was speaking at the trustees' annual meeting and saying: "The instruction in the first two college years in the United States has probably always been in essence what is now known as secondary rather than advanced instruction. On that account it has no proper place in a university as distinguished...
Cried the "unidentified ruffianly youth" who held the revolver: "You dare to attack the Government and Premier Bethen! Take that! And that!" (striking him in the face with a brass knuckled fist). Then policemen scurried up . . . Uncharitable persons accused the Premier of importing such ruffians to deal with his opponents...