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...other places, to place upon a pedestal. And suitable statuary--or indeed any kind of statuary--is rare about the University. The Discobolus in front of the Hemenway gymposium and John Harvard comprise the whole outdoor contingent. There would undoubtedly be insuperable obstacles but some patriot might reasonably drag forth one of the excellent figures in the Germanic Museum--which seems never to be visited--and place it on the former site of John Harvard. Probably it would dissolve in the next spring shower; but something is needed to relieve the present desolation...
...fecund mind of William Jennings Bryan brought forth a brain child, preconceived some years ago by the late Theodore Roosevelt. Now, according to Mr. Bryan, the public is ready to receive this plan...
...words of a front page news story of The Christian Science Monitor, two of whose hobbies are women and Prohibition: "The American woman is going forth to war, a ballot in her hand and that which has been reckoned as a political impossibility-a solid woman vote-is threatening in the Spring primaries as well as in the Fall elections. . . . They are aroused over what they regard as a patriotic issue, a challenge to citizenship, an attack on every moral fibre of the nation. The grandmother with a purpose can be more formidable than the political leader or the officeholder...
Heywood Broun, famed theatre critic: "In a play criticism I concocted a mixed metaphor: 'It is not unreasonable that it [the Provincetown Playhouse] should occasionally bring forth base metal...
...regret that the question of speakers at the Union should have called forth the letter from Mr. Fordyce printed in the news columns. For we believe his accusations unjustifiable...