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...University's hitless runs came in the second inning when Hammond was walked, advanced to second by Hill, who made first on an error by the pitcher, was forced to third when Thayer was walked, and came comfortably home when the third baseman threw the ball at the press stand instead of to the catcher. Larrabee came up and knocked an infield fly to the pitcher. It looked as if the University was to check up a few more runs when Young reached first, filling the bases, but Price steadied beautifully and put out the next two men with little...
Officially Lenin is reported to be progressing favorably. Unofficially it is rumored that he has been dead for some weeks. As no one can see the Premier of the Russian Soviet Government, dead or alive, and as the press censorship is so severe that there is no possibility of a leak through official channels, the world will have to wait the pleasure of the parsimonious Bolsheviki...
...Arkwright, Crompton and Stephenson, the chief pioneers in the industrial revolution which ushered in the entire mechanism of modern civilization? How long before the Wrights of the aeroplane, Bell of the telephone, Marconi of the wireless will be mere signposts marking the evolution of mechanical progress? They could not press agent themselves in immortal language and their memory will perish. But Dr. Johnson had a press agent in Boswell, Darwin had one in Huxley, and Benjamin Franklin, like Goethe, Leonardo, Dante and Cellini, was his own press agent. If you would have fame, "that last infirmity of noble minds," give...
...Miss Bertha Beeson is "positively and obviously the most sensational high wire artist of all time," Mile. Leitzel " breaks every law of gravity," and the circus advertises its clowns as being so funny that they "would even make a prude smile." It seems never to have occurred to the press agents, barkers and ballyhoo men of Barnum and Bailey's that anybody might ask "Well, what of it?" or "Who cares?" With an unerring understanding of popular psychology, they realize that what the American wants is quantity- all the measurements of time, space, and movement in the nth degree...
...Board of Overseers of Harvard University unanimously adopted a unanimous report of a faculty committee advising against any form of racial or religious discrimination. And the press is unanimous in hailing that decision as "a victory for free thought," a triumph of tolerance,? and, incidentally, a sound reproof to President Lowell for daring to mention the race problem in the first place. There is a great deal of editorial gesturing over "the democracy of letters" and "the old Harvard tradition of liberalism" and everyone from editor-in-chief to proofreader professes to be exceedingly relieved...