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Henry Cantwell Wallace, gone now some two months, is not forgotten. Last week, his successor, Secretary Howard M. Gore, Governor-elect of West Virginia, transmitted to the President the report of the Department of Agriculture for 1923-24. He said in doing so that, although Mr. Wallace had never seen the final draft, he had superintended the gathering of the material and it was believed to represent his opinions...
...gods of the University are sleeping at the switch. Mr. Doughty writes four pages far above the common ken; Mr. Elliott contributes a story; and there are a few pallid lyrics. But, all in all, the number is a decided success; in fact, it nearly equals the almost forgotten days when the writer was an undergraduate of the College, when the Lampoon was very young, and the worthy paper in whose columns this review is printed lay, a charming infant, mewling against the hirstute breast of her fond and indulging parent, the Harvard Advocate...
...found a cloak-room jam at every door of the Chapel whenever Dr. Fosdick was to speak the announcement comes rather as evidence of a true spirit of brotherhood among University authorities. Perhaps the only persons to feel disgruntled are those residents of Cambridge who have so far forgotten their college habits as to rise early Sunday mornings and so take advantage of sleepy students. Yet inasmuch as they are for the most part unoppressed by "estrictions they may welcome this one office decree as reminiscent of college life...
...Cincinnati Enquirer, still intoxicated with the overwhelming conservative victory, and still reeling a little after a jubilant celebration, proposes the discharge of the two hundred and thirteen professors, who, its figures show, supported La Foliette in the almost forgotten campaign. They have proved themselves "attached to recognized heresies", and must be "relieved of all duties as instructors of the youth of the nation". Evidently the Enquirer is not satisfied that the benightedness of ignorant opinion is a sufficient punishment; some more positive and noteworthy chastisement can alone fit the Enquirer's feeling for divine justice...
...convinced that the persons who originated this story are of that group of publicity seekers who, by associating themselves with an illustrious name, hope to attract attention to their little selves. It is a mistake to give credence to such reports. Enrico Caruso is not forgotten...