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...cease buying newspapers; he had found he got on comfortably without them and his answer to his own question was implied: Not a particle of difference. "Isn't it possible that most of us overdo the newspaper habit?" And Agent Barton adduced the example of President Roosevelt, who freed his mind of "all the pull and tug of the nonessential" by having his secretaries clip and paste up the essence of each day's news...
...mediocre future of Reed College need hardly be described. The liberalism of views expressed by a faculty which had been freed by their president's resistance from the pressure of an uncomprehending board of regents, is no longer to be dangerous. The originator of so thorough, if unofficial, a persecution of economic dissenters will not be too sympathetic to any ideas which might be accused of unorthodoxy. His constant care will be to purge Reed College of its liberal fevers. From hence-forth, Reed College must play, in the educational sphere, a respectable if uninspired and totally mediocre role...
...equivocal plank in its platform, and one presidential candidate devoted much breath and labor in explaining this plan of exit from the situation. The important factor in the decision is public indifference. That a principal resource of the South, providing heat, light, and factory power, is to be chiefly freed from public control and left within the decision of private interests, seems a step of no importance...
More than a quarter of a century has rolled by since Cuba was freed from Spanish rule by the successful conclusion of the Spanish-American War. Those were days when Colonel "Teddy" Roosevelt's Rough Riders rendered inestimable service to the cause of Cuba...
...similar ceremony honored Dr. Marion Talbot, Dean of Women at the University of Chicago. Dean Talbot spoke: ". . . . As the Little Lord Fauntleroy type of boy has been superseded by the vigorous, athletic boy scout so the girl, freed from corset and hoopskirt and chignon, in blouse and knickers or swimming tights, performs feats of physical agility and endurance which in the days of her great-grandmother would have condemned her to a social limbus, if not to something worse." She recalled the day when a college woman was considered "a freak and an outcast...