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...Harvard and Radcliffe students only." After a certain period, when it was considered that everyone belonging to one of these favored classifications had availed himself of his privileges or else had decided to stay home, the front doors were opened, and the General Public, which had been standing twenty deep for an hour or more was permitted to fill in the spaces left. Undoubtedly a considerable portion of the General Public had leaked in through the side doors, which were intended one for "Students and friends," and one for the "Faculty and friends" only. Due to the difficulty of distinguishing...
...great dark blue clouds, which have been piling up over Mexico for some weeks (TIME, Oct. 29), at last discharged their lightning and rolled the deep raucous roar of political thunder...
Walter E. Edge, U.S. Senator from New Jersey: "Mrs. Edge and I were slightly injured when hit by an automobile while we were crossing 16th Street, Washington, in a rainstorm. I sustained a deep cut over my right eye, requiring several stitches. Mrs. Edge, who escaped with bruises, was confined to our house for several days...
...everybody does what he wants. A great modern college is a heterogeneous, cosmopolitan community which can't be made over into a village improvement society. Here is a "bunch" of undergraduates "going in for" settlement work, teaching night schools, deeply interested in their religious societies. There is another "bunch" deep in the psychology of poker. Here is a youth burning the midnight electric light over Plato--in the Loeb Classical Library. There is "a little group of serious thinkers," hot for communism. In a few years they will be selling boots and shoes, or something equally as harmless...
...book possessing tremendous individuality; one of those books one can never forget; and this property arises out of the sense one gets of exalted character alike in the subject and the writer, of great precision of thought and beauty of expression. I laid it down with deep regret that I had come to the end, regret that Roosevelt, who so much admired Lord Charnwood's "Lincoln," might not read it.--Julian Street in Book Review...