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...well worn pens of Harvard CRIMSON editors, undergraduates are launching a bitter tirade against the building of a new chapel to replace the vine-covered and consecrated Appleton Chapel which has stood in the Yard for long decades. More than ten days ago University officials announced the sage idea of erecting a new church as a memorial to Harvard's war heroes...
...home of so many great and godly gentlemen--the Mathers, Longfellow, Emerson, and many more,--refuses the chance to have a fine new chapel. Why? Because there is not enough religious interest in Harvard to warrant the erection of anything larger. Cornell would not want a new chapel--Sage is beautiful and inspiring. But even in this school where the word religion borders very closely to the realm of obsolescence attendance at churches on the hill and down town is not discouraging. --Cornell...
Alfalfa Bill. A "common people's affair" was the inaugural of William Henry ("Alfalfa Bill") Murray as the State's ninth Governor. To the "Sage of Tishomingo" and the author of Oklahoma's Constitution the oath of office was administered by his father, Uriah Dow Thomas Murray, 91, a special notary for the occasion. Governor Murray put aside the baggy wrinkled clothes and red suspenders he had affected for his hitchhiking campaign last year and appeared at Oklahoma City in a well-pressed suit, with his shoes shined and his long, scraggly mustache trimmed. Close at hand as an escort...
Thereupon the florist's ideas undergo a complete metamorphosis on the subject of capital punishment. He does everything he can to save his child. But Miss Watkins would undoubtedly go to the chair were it not for some impudent but sage political advice which Mr. Glenn Anders (Hotel Universe), as a newspaper reporter, breathes into the ear of the district attorney...
...heart disease; in Indianapolis, Ind. Working for the Indianapolis News since 1891, he had for the last 26 years done a daily drawing of "Abe Martin," a lanky Indiana farmer whose comments on life and current topics were homely, brief, genial. He invented other small-town characters, syndicated their sage humor in many a U. S. paper. Some Abe Martinisms: "We often wonder if anybuddy ever bought new shoe strings before th' ole ones busted? . . . Wouldn't this be a dandy world if we could all stand discouragement like a reformer? . . 'I heard a shot...