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Howard Chandler Christy, commissioned recently to paint the portrait of President Harding has been asked to paint the portraits of six other Presidents of the United States: the two Adams, Monroe, Van Buren, Polk, Garfield. These portraits will hang in the salons of the "President Fleet" of the United States Shipping Board-which will carry Mr. Christy's fame even farther than American magazines have carried it already...
Perhaps to answer the theoretical question, "Does the time hang heavy in Hanover?" the daily "Dartmouth" has just finished an exhaustive "Investigation of Time" with the statistical conclusion that the average Dartmouth undergraduate "works nine hours, sleeps eight and one-quarter hours, and spends four hours in recreation on week-days...
...glad to see "The Measure". Its poetry has no moaning pseudo-intellectuality about it--and the quarterly change of editorship assures it that constant freshness without which all poetry might as well go hang itself. The October number is especially interesting because of contributions by Malcolm Vaughan and Royall Snow both recent Harvard graduates...
...every age vandalism has been regarded with contempt by the overwhelming majority of civilized society. The seriousness of the offence varies from the sack of a city to the mischievousness of a gang of small boys. Obviously, to hang an urchin for smashing a street lamp is as out of proportion as to give half a dozen lashes to a soldier who has burnt down a house and murdered the owners...
...criticized and laughed at; excellent! He will beg some one else to take his place and will enjoy a much-needed rest. Only, of course, he will then look on; - "and the tangle gets a little more, and the fumbling gets a little more pronounced." The man who would "hang the Kaiser in 1918" will see in 1922 "how we are to forgive Germany all the reparations and make France love us more than ever"; how we are to pay debts and not receive them, how all the problems of the country are to be settled...