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...gravity of all the sounds from a milligram bird's twitter to a hundred-ton football cheer. Modern ingenuity has learned to "can" music. Certain modern composers have succeeded in extracting the melody from it, and producing compositions of pure noise. Music may be bought by the sheet, the roll, or the disk. Perhaps the time is not far distant when it will be priced like cabbages, at so much a pound...
...Congress assembles. It is not the new Congress recently elected; it is the old Congress of last winter. The old familiar faces, at least most of them, will reappear. A few of the old members, Senators Colt, Brandegee, Lodge, will be answering other roll calls. Some will come back to pay a brief parting call-Magnus Johnson, for example; Senators Ball, Dial, Stanley, Walsh of Massachusetts, McCormick, before a forced retirement to rustication on their farms and by their native fireside. A few, such as Senator Elkins, will be back to wave a gayer adieu. Others such as Senators Walsh...
...annual Red Cross roll call is now in full swing and will continue to solicit subscriptions until Thanksgiving. The Student Council announced last night that although no canvassing in college dormitories will be done that the drive has its hearty endorsement and that I hoped there would be a creditable number of voluntary contributions...
...doing what the coaches expected of him. Time and again it was this 145-pound pilot who dropped the Tiger after he had broken through the forward line. His judgment on punts was usually good, except for one occasion when the ball took an awkward bounce and failed to roll over the goal line as he had expected. On running back punts he was ineffective because he received practically no support in the way of interference...
About Senator William E. Borah's reelection there seemed to be no question. A huge majority for him could be seen rolling up on Idaho's peaks, though he was detained on a rat hunt (see Page 3) in Washington, helpless to help it roll. Few Republicans could hope for a higher compliment than that paid Senator Borah by the rabidly Democratic New York World, which published an editorial addressed to the people of Idaho, imploring them not to fail in their duty of reëngaging this valuable national servant...