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Willis Chatham Hawley of Salem, Ore., has succeeded Iowa's Green (who was "kicked upstairs" to a judgeship last session) as chairman of Ways & Means. He was a pedagog (Umpqua Academy, Oregon State Normal School, Willamette University) from 1884 to 1905. "Don't rock the boat," is his fiscal motto, while New Jersey's Bacharach provides the vessel's steam. Big of frame, with thinning sandy hair, he wrestles happily with infinite details...
...Rock Alteration as a Guide to Ore Deposits", Professor McLaughlin, Rotch Building...
...make the best saints. Youth, itself is balance enough. And if it be feared that the University would, free from an artificial mixing within itself, turn into a closed circuit of thought, let it be remembered that, short as was the distance from the Capitol to the Tarpeian Rock, the distance from Widener to the Harvard Square rotunda is no longer. Harvard shows no sign of turning aloof from life...
Derby folk thought the peak of the day came when it skimmed across another state line to rock-ribbed Republican Hartford, Conn. Here five miles of packed humans jammed the streets, through which police fought a slow way for the Candidate's car. And at no point did the crowds thin or taper off?as happened in Chicago...
...which seemed inconceivable in this United States of today; and hopefully it was thought confined to Tennessee. A similar anti-evolution bill failed of passage in Florida. But Arkansas has gone further than to place an anti-evolution bill on the ballot for referendum. The municipal government of Little Rock has given unimpeachable evidence that agitation against such a measure is not there the inalienable right of any citizen of the United States. The Atheism Association may be wrong and intolerant themselves in the beliefs they hold. But amazing and munificent publicity, that second wealth of America, has been given...