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...vortices of Presidential elections are the individuals involved or hopeful of being involved. The experience of each Candidate persuades him that his unique self may be the historic medium of an intensely interested multitude. Or else he is like a steeplejack, undizzied by his altitude in public affairs and intent on mending the weathervane, or crowing as a weathercock...
...original intent of the Sunday morning closure was doubtless in behalf of religious services; but it is hardly probable that the church attendance of students is much increased by this act. As for the difficulties arising on other days of the week, one might remark that though track, lacrosse, and baseball each has its thousands, tennis has its ten thousands; and that H. A. A. books are not universal. Freshman physical training occupies many of the Soldiers Field courts three days a week throughout May, and the already limited facilities are further diminished. The result is a choice between more...
...opposition." The nude pictures were intended to appeal to "his aesthetic side if he had any." Atheist Smith pointed out that it would be quite natural for a clergyman to send an atheist Christian propaganda. After so doing, Atheist Smith was found guilty of sending letters with intent to annoy. The judges sentenced him to $100 fine or 30 days in the workhouse. Atheist Smith paid the fine, but appealed their verdict...
...William ("Jix") Joynson-Hicks stated that he had requested the abdicated onetime Crown Prince Carol of Rumania to leave England within five days, on account of the attempt which Carol allegedly made last fortnight (TIME, May 14) to charter two British air liners for a dash to Rumania, with intent to seize the Throne from his six-year-old son, King Mihai...
...dogmatic solution of the problem is far from the author's intent. "Oliver Cromwell," he says in closing, "had set out with the high profession that he would save the parliamentary liberties of Englishmen. That was his theory. In practice he never once allowed England to elect a free Parliament, and his only permanent legacy to the nation was a standing army. A fact like that cannot be fitly explained by the mere historian. It is a subject for a writer of great tragedy--or farcical comedy...