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...same enthusiasm, and even musical recitals have had an unprecedented attendance. This state of affairs has aroused the apprehension of "several acute observers" lest the symbol of the bulldog be no longer quite apropos. Donald Stewart has remarked that the bulldog is characterized among other things by his deep chest, undershot jaw, and "the complete absence of any intelligence." Surely this figure completely fails to symbolize the new era at Yale...
Back of this reform is a motive of deep significance; a move toward truth in advertising. One can sell an article by loud-mouthed shouting after the fashion of a side-show barker, or by an honest effort to set the facts before the purchaser. The same movement is seen in the newspapers which strive first of all for an impartial presenting of events--facts alone--in the news columns. Some periodicals have carried this reform to the advertising pages; they investigate the truth of what they publish. And why not? The day has come when one looks askance...
...cause of Russian democracy. Among other things, he describes the part both of them took in a three-days census of Moscow, in which they canvassed the poorest quarter of the city. The mass of poverty and degradation which they found there excited horror and disgust, and made is deep impression on young Tolstoy...
...birthday message from officers and students of Harvard University, which you were kind enough to send me with your letter of twenty-seventh December, has given me deep gratification; and I hope there may be some occasion upon which you can convey to the subscribers an expression of my appreciation. It is very delightful and heartening to be made aware of such friendship and confidence". (Signed) Woodrow Wilson...
...snowball situation is not a matter for deep concern. It is a normal, healthy method of presenting a fellow creature with a black eye and an exercise without which no childhood is complete. But in childhood snowballs did not cost ten cents apiece. One evening last winter cost a class now in the University something like a thousand dollars for broken windows. Assume that five hundred men went into action, each throwing twenty snowballs. The rate per snowball comes to ten cents...