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...that is the object to be furthered by the Bok-given Woodrow Wilson literature chair at Princeton as announced last week: "To commemorate Mr. Wilson's mastery of spoken and written English . . . and to further appreciation of the best English literature...
...lock-step. Even at Harvard where current collegiatisms exert no great moral pressure, a colloquialism can become standard overnight. The latest innovation of this sort had a lowly beginning at Arthur's as "Sorry on the Seagoing." And now throughout the College, men are "sorry on" every missing object from shoe trees to the ace of spades...
What he is afraid of is of course obvious. He does not want to be confronted with difficult questions over the evening paper. And no father or member of a school board can be expected to know his metaphysics. But he should not object to the thinking of the members of the club...
...masked inquisitors, and Nessie not being found, the bastinadoes of righteousness descend upon Abner when he returns to marry the girl. Nessie, seeking refuge under an express train, is rescued and married by the village infidel, Belshue the jeweler, a mournful, middle-aged creature, who was the chief object of her missionary work before her downfall...
...strike, contrary to many reports, was entirely industrial and had as its only object a satisfactory solution of the coal mining difficulty which had come to an impasse. Following the brief period of prosperity in 1919 the conditions of the miners had been steadily growing worse over a period of five years. Finally in August of last year further wage reduction became necessary in order to keep the mines going. But the workers had reached rock bottom already, and a Royal Commission was appointed while the government agreed to subsidize the industry...