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...Cooper following that irresistible path of least resistance and just about to settle down to the sweets of married life. As the story goes, one evening Cooper was reading aloud to his wife a novel of English society. And here the Vagabond would stress this ever-growing tendency of some of our modern novels: They often do for us just what they did for our budding genius. He said: "What stuff I believe I could write a better story myself...
...public service" is a fine ideal. Whether they will find a suitable place, after education, is another, and serious matter. The School is taking a bold step, but it may, by its very foundation influence events in its own favor. Like most individualists striking out on a new path, the new School will find many obstacles, but with growth and age it is sure to acquire strength...
John Knowles Paine, the father of the Music Department, for whom Paine Hall was named, is credited with establishing the Department on the firm ground it rests upon today. Accepted as a valuable, even indispensable division of the University now, apparently there were tremendous obstacles in the path of its far-seeing founders. "Even so great a man as Francis Parkman," says Spalding, "an artist in his own sphere, is said to have been fond of exclaiming in Corporation meetings, after reading the annual budget, "Musica delenda...
...Kankakee, Ill., trying to flag an automobile roaring into the path of an oncoming locomotive, Crossing Watchman Sam Piuppo, 59, was struck and killed by the car which cleared the front of the locomotive by inches, roared...
...frontiers of knowledge, and in such a way that they cross the conventional boundaries of the specialties. As above stated, the Harvard authorities are impressed by the realization that all subjects which are intensively studied lead into other subjects; that from law, for example, some men must follow a path that leads into history, some a path that leads into economics, some a path that leads into business administration. They propose, therefore, that the search for truth and the scope of the professor's interests, rather than the traditional division of subjects, shall determine where the holders of University Professorships...