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...caught in the classical trap they had set for him. Rising to his feet just at the proper moment, the new Doctor of Laws asfounded the assembly with a Latin address in which Dr. Beck himself was unable to discover a single error. A brief quotation from this eloquent production will be sufficient to exhibit its character: 'Caveat emptor; corpus delicti; ex post facto; dies irae; e pluribus unum; usque ad nauseam; Ursa Major; sic semper tyrannis; quid pro quo; requiescat in pace'. Now this foolery was immensely taking in the day of it. . . The story was, on the whole...
...correct an error in TIME, Feb. 23, item "Eggs," I am enclosing a copy of The Weekly Letters from the Secretariat of Rotary International, on the last page of which I have checked what I think you will find of interest...
...faith in him, urged him to become a novelist. Ten years later, at Christmas time, Oliver came home with a brand new face. Evidently he was a successful novelist for he wore a fur coat. Had it not been for his faithful sister Peter, who showed them the error of their ways, he would have run away with his oldtime girl friend, for by now she was quite willing. So the play ended with everyone looking courageously toward the future, while outside there gleamed what Fred Allen calls a deep blanket of snow-eternal snow...
...visiting patronizers seeking American patronage." Charles Dickens was among the first British novelists to profit from cracking America across the face;† and, as Mr. Priestley said last week, "Dickens is still read in America." Miss Hurst, and many another U. S. citizen, pounced simultaneously on a Priestley error of fact. He had said that Americans buy but do not read books, cited as proof the fact that an English friend had found Sinclair Lewis novels in homes throughout the U. S. "uncut." As Americans know, all trade editions of Mr. Lewis' novels, and nearly all U. S. novels...
...says American colleges are being impregnated with practical courses which breed a materialistic outlook. In some cases the reaction against the classical curriculum has been carried to extremes. But, when Dr. Lang comes to criticize the high schools on the same grounds, he seems to fall into the common error of considering the high school purely as the hand-maiden of the college...