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...weather had come and the folks were thinking warm and homey summer thoughts. Pittsburgh discussed the drop of the Pirates with the sad indulgence of a disappointed'parent. In Des Moines, and all through Iowa, farmers reluctantly decided that the heavy rains (a regular flood) had washed away the chances of a full corn crop. In Alliance, Neb., Editor Ben Sallows of the Times-Herald griped good-naturedly about prices: "Life must be worth living. The cost has doubled, and still everybody hangs on." Out in Montana, the people talked mostly about fishing and the Rodeo. Everywhere, they talked...
...issue was one which troubled many a U.S. schoolmaster, and many a parent. In Royal Oak, Principal Marks was damned by some parents as harsh and hasty. But a few supported him. Said Lawyer Gilbert Davis: "My 16-year-old daughter and I knew it was illegal. I drove her home from the initiation when she reeked from the cheese they rubbed in her hair, and I gave her $12 for the pin. I let her do it because there's enough snob in me to be proud when my daughter gets into something exclusive. It was wrong...
...adopt and then discard one "certainty" after another, remains undismayed: "The history of thought is largely concerned with the records of clear-headed men insisting that they at last have discovered some clear, adequately expressed, indubitable truths." Whitehead considers "inconsistent truths [as] seedbeds of suggestiveness," thinks (with his philosophical parent Plato) that "knowledge is a process," and that "ancient science stopped with Archimedes [because] people stopped asking foolish questions...
...indications of the old, District-wide apathy toward visiting dignitaries had the planners resorting to psychological stratagems. Schoolchildren were told that if they got a note from home okaying their attendance at the reception, they would get a small Mexican flag. The reasoning was that, since no parent would let his child venture into the welcoming crowd alone, and no child would give up the flag without a prolonged and deafening squawk, the whole family would have to turn...
...guiding light of the Harvard Orchestra, the Sodality was also functional in creating the first Professorship of Music in America; assisted in founding the Boston Symphony Orchestra; and gave a parental nod to the Harvard Glee Club. During their first years together, members vocalized as often as they scraped G-strings and on the first anniversary of the Sodality, "a number of appropriate songs were sung.... The greatest order and harmony were observed." But constant mixing of song and sonata had its drawbacks, and in 1858 the Glee Club broke away, leaving its parent organization to roam its scales alone...