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...given a current-events course, we'll fill the lecture-hall to the doors. And there is hope for a rebirth of interest in the world's doings. One has only to be witness to the hush of curious concern that falls over the History I assembled multitude when the lecturer draws a parallel to the Middle Ages from some recent world-event. Beverley M. Bowie...
...News, reported the news that one Harry M. Kernan, housepainter of East Orange, N. J., had won $53,250 on his $2.50 lottery ticket on Signifier, who finished second in the Manchester race (see p. 42 ). Both newspapers carried the lottery story in complete detail, with no apparent concern over what the Post Office might do about...
Rich Man's Folly (Paramount), supposed to have been suggested by Dickens' Dombey & Son, is an earnest but stodgy study of a gloomy man of business (George Bancroft). An irascible and exaggerated enthusiasm for his shipbuilding concern makes him, at first, a monster. He wants nothing but a son to carry on his name and when his wife dies, in furnishing him with one, he shows a callous gratification. The story plods on, a pony with the manners of a percheron, while the son dies (of a cold caught at a ship's christening), while the shipbuilder...
...first 174 pages of the story concern football. The hero, oddly enough, does not win the game by his prowess in the last minute. In Part 1 he is "Grist for the Mill"; in Part 2 he undergoes "Convalescence." The remainder of the book details his love for a student at the Conservatory in Boston, and his progress from divisional examinations to marriage...
...hate to see a good doctor concern himself too much with symptoms and forget the disease, and it is just this that many are doing and publicly. The dining hall system is part of an experiment in unity, involving, to be sure, vivisection. The particular dog is not expected to profit greatly. An objection to the dining hall system is pretty much an objection to the purpose of the House Plan, and I daresay that one will be as unavailing as the other--for the time being, rightly so. Nobody, least of all the authorities empowered to act, will...