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...heraldry, let Lowell bells ring out and the bird-calls sound forth loud and clear. It is a romantic story, this calling of Harvard men to their colors. One day in January, masters and tutors, in meeting assembled, folded their hands and awaited the moment when the spirit should move them. Then to each there came that inner voice, whispering to men of Dunster, "blue and gold," murmuring to sons of Winthrop "red and white." The colors conceived that day were brought forth only a few days ago by a haberdasher. Himself a knight of the garter, and true...
...further thought, however, it becomes evident that he could hardly have made a shrewder political move. The chorus of praise from even conservative Republicans has shown that his losses are largely imaginary, while the echoes from liberals and Democrats have shown his gains to be real. With unusual strategy, he has done the nation a great service while at the same time serving his own political interests...
...outcome is obvious. Kentucky has restricted the press locally but if has incurred the censure of men who to a great degree influence public opinion. Perhaps this lesson will show that freedom of the press is a principle far above move governmental restriction and that unreasonable lamination only arouse if to greater action...
Harbin is in the Russian sphere of influence in Manchuria. It is the headquarters of the Soviet-dominated Chinese Eastern Railroad. Some 25,000 Russians, Red and White, live there. But last week Russia made no overt move to protect the city whose defense was left to spry little General Ting Chao. General Ting Chao fought a 17-hour battle which Harbin's shivering but fascinated inhabitants watched from their roofs. Possibly in an effort to embroil Russia. Ting Chao's artillery was posted squarely in front of Russian offices of the C. E. R. But Russia...
...Cohan song, the MacKaye masque, and 30 other Washingtonian items about the U. S. To members of Congress he distributed, for a trifle each, statuets reproduced from the Nolleken bust. To 1,000,000 schoolrooms he distributed a poster made from the Athenaeum portrait. As unofficial censor of the move to honor Washington, he endorses most of the commercial enterprises submitted to the Commission, suggests a fair price for Washingtonian matchboxes, fountain pen sets, Wedgwood china plates, lampshades, silhouets and plaques. The tire cover notion he rejected as unsuitable. Some of the Commission's own projects he has copyrighted himself...