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...famous weekly carried the cartoons of Nast, which kindled the flame of public wrath and eventually consumed the corrupt tinder of the Tweed Ring. The New York Times was high priest over that burnt offering to the god of politics. But Harper's Weekly held the torch. Today a ghost of journalism has returned, announcing itself as the New Harper's Weekly, an " International Illustrated Journal...
...mythical average graduate probably has no more definite idea of such details than his stenographer, if he has one. As numerous others have remarked previously, college is not for learning facts but for learning how to think and how to judge values and make decisions. It is the pale ghost of that training which prompts the glowing epistles from "State Street" and the promising offers at the Employment Office...
This fleet is said to be terrorized by a rum pirate called the Gray Ghost, a big steel trawler, which raids the rum ships and steals their cargoes. Being engaged in illicit trade themselves they are afraid to appeal to the United States or to the British Government, whose flag they usually fly for protection...
...Gray Ghost-terror of Block Island...
...similarity to the jacket of the previous volume. Is it possible that another parody is about to be born? The history of that ancient literary form is an honorable one in the University. Aristocrats and Proletarians are not forgotten; the Harvard Magazine, now serenely buried, was once a recurrent ghost who mimicked himself from vari-colored pages; and the buzz of a recent mockgad-fly still echoes...