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...based on the desire for unhampered week-ends? Or did they fear that in the new chapel they could not "with such consort as they keep, entice the dewy-feathered sleep"? It seems most probable that Princeton is able to "love the high embowed roof, with antique pillars massy proof" just so long as the "storied windows rightly dight" do not east upon the student body too frequent "a dim religious light...
...Italians, Premier, Mussolini may seem a little ill-at-ease in his new role of champion of peace and quiet, but the native sons realize that it is another proof of his profoundly sympathetic nature. When a proposal was made recently to motorize the gondolas of Venice, Mussolini said nothing, but when little Mariapia Cafagna of New York presented him with a petition of her own composition, signed by four hundred Americans, the superlative "human-interest" side of the thing pierced through his gruff exterior, and touched the great although little-known heart...
Stirrings of Life were found at the University of New Mexico, where the Indian-mission buildings are "still copies, but at least of a tradition local and native." Proof that "the best powers of the American mind in action" are capable of creating a form "good, clean, elementary, logical, impelling;" was found, and illustrated in the football stadia of Yale, Leland Stanford, the University of California. "Perhaps in the distant future this form will be repeated, but reduced to a size commensurate with humbler pursuits...
That some men may occasionally achieve greatness or success without the advantage of a college training is no proof that the average individual would succeed as well nor that the gifted person would not have accomplished still more if college-trained...
...Dial parody. To disqualify the Advocate would be not less a slander upon its public and the University than a stigma upon the intelligence and sincerity of the postal authorities. A reinstatement in the privileges of the mails will be a vindication of the Advocate's excellent parody and proof incontrovertible of the sense of fairness and intellectual honesty which must govern the decisions of the political agents of a free people...