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Taken together it appears that the Press, undisputed as its power is, has only succeeded in making the muddy election water a whole lot muddier. Anything may happen...
...What will happen when Yale meets Harvard?" has been the oft-repeated question of the past two weeks It will not, of course, be finally answered until Saturday, but anyone who attended last night's mass meeting feels that "Yale can be beaten" and will make a pretty good guess...
...seem ungracious to clamor like this, in a publishing season that has already produced so many worthy novels. But?we wonder just what would happen if one of the younger or youngest generation worked in a steel mill for a couple of years before he wrote his next novel. It might be the Great American Novel after...
...bookplates, nauseatingly quaint, with florid mock-Old-English lettering, " From among Ye Bookes of Cleo. S. Eiswasser "-sentences written with a damp pencil on the title pages of schoolbooks ("If my name you wish to see-," "If this book should chance to roam," etc.)- and shudder. Then, perhaps, you happen to go to such an exhibition of bookplates as was recently held at the New York Public Library, and realize that there is a whole world of bookplates and bookplate-collectors in which you are the most ignorant of novices...
...finger beside their noses and cry, "Aha! what we need is less rigor." Yet out of it all there is little change from year to year except in an increasing amount of law-breaking. President Harding called his conference of governors and made strong statements, but nothing happened. President Coolidge has given his conference wise suggestions practically all he could do. And judging from past experience nothing probably will happen. "Huge Liquo, Plots" are unearthed with a sort of German mechanical regularity. At first one would exclaim. "At last we are to have real enforcement", but the cry of wolf...