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...Tone, President of Tone Brothers' Spice Company; George W. Webber, Secretary of the Des Moines Y.M.C.A.?were in the habit of meeting in a quiet way, often at a certain camp which nestled in the wilderness outside the city, at which times they discussed ideals. Their little group grew rapidly. They determined to invite Dr. Mott. They invited also George Sherwood Eddy, preeminent among the exhorters of Americans and others, who speaks always with clenched fist, contracted brow, tight-drawn lips. He bullies men's consciences, he stirs their emotions. In almost every land, he has exhorted for peace...
...Englishman, then spoke, saying, "Business, the all-absorbing, has permeated the English atmosphere as it has the American, but the colleges have not been affected. They may yet be, but it will be by a process opposite to the American. Over here, trade, came before the colleges and grew up with them, particularly in the West. In England the colleges and trade have been mutually exclusive, and business must force its way in. The contest between American and English's colleges is shown by the familiar example of extra-curriculum interests. In America one "works to make" something or other...
...stable, so steady and with so great a sense of responsibility has succeeded in avoiding the slings and darts of outraged partisans. The reason is that Mr. New is old in politics. He was born into it. His father, an Indianapolis banker, was in politics and the younger New grew up in the atmosphere of politics, knowing many political leaders before he was 20. After being graduated from Butler University (Indianapolis), he spent three years abroad. When he returned he wrote his experiences for the Indianapolis Journal. This led to his employment as a reporter. The reporter...
Polish doctors advised radium treatment, said he would have to go to Paris for it. She threw up her work to accompany her sweetheart to the French capital; she nursed him tenderly ; she gave her own blood in a transfusion operation. It was all to no purpose; he grew worse and worse...
...Hill" ivy plant, grown from a slip of the original vine which grew at Charles Dickens' home at Gad's Hill Place, Rochester, England, has been added to the Dickens exhibition in the Treasure Room of Widener Library. This plant was loaned by Mr. and Mrs. C. J. Ridgeway of the Dickens Fellowship of Boston in commemoration of Dickens birthday which is today...