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...Significance. In Gold, Mr. Wassermann pursues, in that large, leisurely and intensely depressing manner which the Germans have made their own, an unrelieved essay on social decadence. The book is one more powerful and pessimistic description of the kind of society which produced the War?and judging by the observed results it is difficult to say that the descriptions have been overdone. It was, as Mr. Wassermann sees it, a society involved in the dry rot of overcivilization, going rapidly down "the great slide" because of a great decay. The translator's title is unnecessarily stressing the obvious when...
...degrees of A. B. and S. B. may apply in writing at 4 University Hall, not later than 5 o'clock today, for not more than four tickets for the Commencement Exercises. Each student in College who is not a candidate for a degree may apply in the same manner for a single standing room ticket...
...King is in his 55th year, in stature short and well-built. It has been said that his manner "combines his father's force with his mother's grace." His hair is gray and always closely cropped. The fine lines of his mouth are quasi-concealed by his prominent mustache. His eyes are piercing but kindly. He received a Spartan education, a fact which is mainly responsible for his unhesitating strength of mind and the wide range and accuracy of his information. "Teddy" Roosevelt ranked him high in the family of Kings...
...Pension Bill and certainly none for the vote against the President's veto, so he voted accordingly. We are asking our friends to reread Mr. Fess's speech and then consider how a man who could make such a speech could act in such an inconsistent manner. . . . The present session of the 68th Congress is reminiscent of the story of the critic who went by request to hear a certain politician make a speech. "Well," said the politician, after he got through, "well, how was it?" "Sound, very sound," said the critic. "Yes," said the politician, and then...
...slit "crosswise and then upward, in the classical manner...