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...Federation appears to be largely taken up with the question of the relation of non-academic activities to the academic activities. This relationship must be worked out by the students. To me the extra-curriculum is the healthful, life-giving source of new curriculum. Out of the debating has grown the Political Science Department, out of the prayer meeting has come the Department of Religion. It would, therefore, seem as though it would be possible to bridge the gap between the academic and the non-academic so as to give real value to the non-academic...
...dirigible Norge, was presented to President Coolidge by the Italian Ambassador. Titina, sophisticated fox terrier who had seen the North Pole, accompanied General Nobile, but scurried out of one of the White House windows before greeting the President. ¶Does President Coolidge eat raccoon meat? No. A full-grown male raccoon, sent from Nitta Yuma, Miss., with the hope that it would be a pièce de résistance for the Presidential table, is now frisking about in the White House cellar. Soon it will probably be despatched to the Rock Creek Zoo in Washington...
...selling for $3 a peck,* f. o. b. Ply mouth, Vt. Last week New York newspapers contained an advertisement of the Dimock Potato Corp. of Bellows Falls, Vt., which said: "A thrill for your dinner guests. . . . This unusual, long-to-be-remembered novelty-baked potatoes de luxe-grown on the farm of Calvin Coolidge's boyhood...
...boom-de-ay'?" Of course the reader remembers, with gusto. The museum trip continues. ". . . And when Michigan Avenue [the book is dedicated to Chicagoans who turned the century] was a dirt road leading south from the greasy river, past brownstone respectability to prairie pioneering in those windblown, grass-grown suburbs, Oakland, Hyde Park, the Midway? And how Chicago sprang up and spread out, so that when the World's Fair opened, with the world's biggest this and the world's finest that, it was a city, with plenty of black smoke and red light neighborhoods...
...course, a heart-rending chapter on "Antiques for a Song," consisting largely of anecdotes, but there is also a cheerful chapter, highly sanative, on "New American Furniture," which faces squarely the dark facts that the Mayflower had room for only a certain number of knickknacks and that imitations have grown more commendable ever since. Another chapter solves problems for young-marrieds, with a five-year program for feathering the nest. All that is (see adjectives above) in chintzes and cretonnes, flounces and hangings, locks and latches, cupboards and clapboards, rugs and roofs, has passed beneath the avid eye of Decoratrix...