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...rather than fictitious literary criticism with decided success; the Advocate could do very well with something of the sort. Mr. Edmonds, in his "Lilace", risen to fanciful heights-but he shows a tendency to stay up for too long at one stretch. which gives a slight touch of the "precious" to his work; he does, however, put his final point across with neatness. The "Parable of Poetic License", by Mr. Leonard, is good imaginative fooling...
...India is the very cradle of civilization," he declared. "It is the fountainhead of much that is most precious among all peoples. Mathematics was invented there; poetry, literature, sculpture, painting, and philosophy have there been brought to their highest peaks...
...front bench: "The words pronounced from this tribune some years ago by President Wilson have left in our memories an echo which will never die. We cannot forget that, at the moment the United States entered the War, President Wilson declared that the right was even more precious than peace. We have not forgotten, and we will not forget, that later he described the Rhine as the frontier of liberty. He consecrated his life to the ideals of justice. His name will remain forever in the memory of humanity." The Chamber then adjourned for several minutes...
...character. Her manly foster brother, played by Tom Nesbitt, has played fast and loose with some one else's bonds for the sake of a little spitfire wench. Shirley, in love with foster brother, purchases the evidence of his guilt from a salacious clerk at the price of her precious jewel of virtue...
...brethren of the Middle West, if we had a third referendum to determine exactly how many men are atheists. As for the rank and file of Harvard men, so far as my observation of them has gone, I believe them to be fundamentally concerned about God. Our precious heritage of non-interference with personal matters has encouraged in Harvard men a quiet formulation of belief which needs no shouting from the house-top to reinforce it, nor public confession to fix it. HARRV REIFF...