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...remarkable after all and the idea is to sail through it as much on an even keel as possible. To be surprised or shocked at anything or to have some absorbing interest is, to say the least, bad form. There is a definite philosophy behind this attitude which would doubtless find its supporters among the Epicureans and Cyrenaics of antiquity--namely, that nothing abides but all things flow so why should one thing matter more than another. It is no longer tenable, however, in the present day, where life cannot be experienced as a whole nor taken as it comes...
...beauty of their ringing. Our experience, we find, was limited. We are now to hear bells we have never heard before, and their din of Slavic tunes from a staid Georgian tower is to set at nought our thought of chimes to delight or console. Yes, we were mistaken, doubtless. (Name withheld by request...
Work on the smaller wing of the new building will doubtless be delayed until the raising of further sums of money, the amount now on hand being sufficient only to complete the two larger ones. For this reason, the whole laboratory will not be available for use at the same time, and the date of the official opening cannot be estimated with certainty. The plans for the court of the quadrangle have not been definitely determined, but they will probably include walks leading up the center to the main entrance...
...story persisted at Harvard for almost 100 years, to the effect that "Old Hickory" listened in evident dismay as the degree was conferred in Latin and then accepted the honor with a string of Latin phrases beginning with e pluribus unum and ending with hic jacel. The legend was doubtless due in part to the fact that Jackson was thoroughly hated in New England...
...Editor's Note: The writer of the above communication doubtless refers to a telegraphic golf match with the University of Oregon which was held May 22, 1929. No debate with Oregon has been held within the last six years...