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This most peculiarly American and modern function of a college president is that of a sort of mediator between the college and the world at large, or more particularly, between the college and the alumni. He has to bridge the gap between certain of the alumni who want a bigger...
There is something vastly amusing in the reflection that the Free Thinkers by their recent action put themselves on the same side of the fence as the Tennessee fundamentalists. Their president and Dr. John Roach Straton are not so much on opposite poles as their labels imply. Neither is content...
He finished the picture in his workroom at Woodsome Lodge. Professor and Mrs. Osborn drove through a violent storm to see it. Sargent met them and then disappeared behind a partition, returning with an easel made of lima bean poles. "Turn round and hide your eyes," Sargent said; Professor and...
He had insisted on bringing tea. He said he always used it at the poles. So we had tea, high tea, then and there. Of course the snow hindered us, but what is one hindrance more or less. Refreshed we made the last nine inches in ten flat. And what...
Janitors were routed out. Feverishly they put the great hall of the Sejm in shape for a meeting. Meanwhile jangling telephones roused Deputies from their beds, brought them scurrying. When all was ready Marshal Pilsudski strode in, obviously in the best of humors. Mounting the tribune he made one of...