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...There are classes in different kinds of writing, but no schools of authorship. The college student, taking the regular academic course, learns to criticize, to tell the true in literature from the false, but is there anything in his teaching that will help him to create? General college culture doubtless increased the powers of a Lowell or a Long-fellow, but it might have been a positive draw back to the originality of Walt Mason, Mark Twain, or James Whitcomb Riley. At no time in their lives could those men have passed an examination for the freshman class...
...late Dowager Queen-Empress Alexandra (TIME, Nov. 30) clung so tenaciously to what she deemed her ipso facto rights that she was with difficulty persuaded to quit Buckingham Palace, and virtually "seized and held" as her London residence Marlborough House, the traditional residence of the Princes of Wales. Doubtless it never occurred to the Queen Mother Alexandra-born to reign if ever mortal was-that she should abandon Sandringham to a king-emperor who was, after all, her son. Filially meek, George V and his consort were content to dwell at York Cottage, on the fringe of Sandringham, whenever they...
...History is what men have tacitly agreed shall be the truth." So commented a recent critic, and doubtless the scribe's Midas-fingers do convert much tinsel into gold. Yet, occasionally, there is no need for alchemy. James Amps, for many years closely associated with Theodore Roosevelt as butler, valet, "head-man," recently in Collier's sketched an intimate portrait of the Colonel's last days. The President had been a jovial man. He would tell a story of how he had loaned $200 to a "Rough Rider" friend to pay a lawyer for his defense after...
...Despatches were meagre concerning these "dragons," but doubtless the flyers had met the expedition under Jesse Metcalf, Manhattan woolens manufacturer, which sailed for Komodo last spring (TIME, March 22 SCIENCE), to capture the large lizard called "boeaja darat" by the Dutch, "land crocodile" by the English. Nearly extinct, this creature is a descendant of dinosaurs; he travels fleetly, his belly free from the ground; eats flesh by night; has been killed in lengths of 18 and 21 ft. Deaf, he is fairly easy to hunt. Of the "fumes not unlike smoke" scientists awaited further explanation...
...Doubtless this seeming paradox is explicable by the fact that few experienced motorists drive far over wet roads without snapping anti-skid chains on their tires. *The statistics did not warrant this admonition, showing less than 1% of cases where the driver was intoxicated...