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...approval upon no course which comes at 9 o'clock of a morning, the opening round of the daily academic grind across the Charles. Another, who has trouble in covering large reading assignments, however simple, will not indorse any course in which the facts to be mastered must be gotten through voluminous reading in assorted text books. Still another, who likes to spend the week-ends away from Cambridge, will not take any course which comes between the mystic hours of noon and 1 o'clock, for the very simple reason that the fastest train for New York leaves...
...Dyer's plight. They thought they smelled some kind of Prohibition plot. Mostly they marveled that one so wise as the Number Two Man of the nation's great House Judiciary Committee, and a Man from Missouri at that, should have speculated ignorantly upon the Curb, and gotten pinked...
...give Author Coolidge credit for fitting his prose to his medium. For Cosmopolitan readers the Coolidge pen had raced intimately. For Ladies' Home Journal readers it had dealt ponderously with peace, defense, good gov- ernment. Publisher Curtis might have felt last week that he, like William Randolph Hearst, had gotten just what he wanted for his readers...
...modern education but on the other hand we have also lost a great deal. The unifying influence in a moral and spiritual way provided by the chapel in the old denominational college has gone completely with the passing of compulsory chapel. The modern college is too specialized and has gotten away from this influence...
...most of another week, while news-starved correspondents were fed titbit after titbit about what the group was preparing to do. Meanwhile Mr. Morgan ran over to London, as he said, "for a cup of tea"; and various other delegates paid flying visits to their homes. When everyone had gotten back from wherever he had gone...