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...city of Canton is reported to be safe and peaceful, but heavy fighting is in progress on the Canton river, where Sun Yat-Sen troops tried in vain to cut off enemy reinforcements from the Kwangsi province...
...enlivening a high-sided rut; preachers and educators who discard their youthful enthusiasm and experimentation for dogma; engineers who reject commonsense in favor of half understood formulae; doctors who rely on the heroic remedies of former ages--such men may do no personal evil, but their influence in preventing progress, their reaction against change, due to inertia alone, is tremendous...
...however, youth ceases to be youth and becomes fixed, obese, immobile. The best service the "Youth" movement can do is to preserve the youthful enthusiasm, youthful willingness to try, and youthful open-mindedness of its followers even after experience has hardened their intellects. Only thus can popular lethargy--where progress is concerned--be overcome, and intelligent, creative interest take its place...
...Executive Committee. N. S. Howe Jr., chairman of the Jubilee Committee, will discuss plans for May 25, which will be fully completed at a meeting at 6 o'clock tonight. A. W. K. Billings Jr., Editor-in-chief of the Red Book, will also report on the progress that has been made in all departments of the Board and the results of the competitions that have already been decided. The facts about the Finance Committee will be given by C. McG. Well, secretary-treasurer of the class, while J. A. Halsted, who has recently been appointed chairman of the Entertainment...
...were born that she started writing. Her first efforts were children's poems, which, she tells you, were exceedingly bad. Then she wrote short stories with some success. Her first novel, The Circular Staircase, which later became The Bat, was a great success, and from that time her progress has been steady. She has never written a failure. That is largely because she respects and knows her tremendous public. Of all our women writers, her attitude toward the war was the sanest, and her Kings, Queens and Pawns is a magnificent piece of reporting. Her work for the Department...