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Instead he would like to see young America clod-hopping to Mr. Dunham's monotonous fiddle. Surely there is no harm in such exercise. The young people who went through it with Mr. Dunham made a lot of noise to indicate enjoyment, but looked very much as if they would rather be doing something more difficult and more graceful. The old folks appeared as if they had never learned to dance at all, and therein lay the pathos of the whole exhibition. It was their patient, uncertain attempts to attain any sort of grace in their movements which showed conclusively...
...They came to develop themselves to the fullest. They have discovered that they possess not only a brain, but also a body, and an intangible something besides, called for lack of a better word, spirit--the core of personality which animates a man and makes him greater than a clod. Mere assimilation of facts and details, important as this is in providing the basis for intellectual growth, is only one factor in three. The old guard are all too ready to condemn without seeing that it is not evasion but eagerness for more than they are willing to give, which...
...Provide Clod-Shoes at the Entrance. Some students derive such subtle pleasure from hearing the reading hall resound with the click-click of their hob-nails on the marble edgings that we ought not to enjoin them to walk softly, but, rather, we ought to furnish them with clod-hoppers, the more to indulge that subtle pleasure...
...Clod," by Lewis Beach, is the of the second of the one-act plays. This play will have its first presentation in Boston at this time, although it was one of the most successful of the Washington Square plays. John Pratt Whitman the producer and Thelma Tapley a charge of the scenery...
...available reports will sign very soon. The United States .... What is the United States doing? Close perusal or reams and reams of congressional; Records fails to show that the United States is doing anything. The treaty will shortly be in effect, with the United States left out in the clod, unwarmed by anything but senatorial hot air. For surely, if this country delays action much longer, the other powers cannot help regarding us with suspicion. What, then, of our prominent trade expansion? Trade come not easily to those who do not inspire confidence and who are late in the field...