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...this system would inevitably lead to some of the worst evils to which the lecture platform has shown tendencies of succumbing. Any plan which regulates a professor's remuneration by his degree of attractiveness to the student body is inimical to sound instruction. The platform would be strewn with sawdust, and the lecture hall become a circus ring for pedagogic antics. Eminent professors at Harvard have on occasion carried their idealism so far as to request that students refrain from applause at the end of the hour, lest the educator quite humanly give way to the pot-boiling popularizer...
Came the Franco-Prussian War, Sedan, the fall of the Empire. The Prussians encircled Paris. Fiery Leon Gambetta escaped in a balloon to direct the war from Tours. The beleaguered Parisians were left to eat rats and sawdust bread, shout the "Marseillaise" from the ramparts. Banker Dreyfus had an opportunity to purchase Critic Timbal's collection at a very attractive price. During the next 20 years, when defeated France was re-establishing herself, he had many similar opportunities...
Swing High (Pathé) depends entirely upon a widespread conviction, the nurturing of which the motion picture industry appears to regard as its most sacred duty, that circus sawdust is a powder of romance. Here a trapeze artist in a traveling circus becomes united, after vicissitudes and theme songs, with the protagonist in a medicine show. A distinguished cast including Helen Twelvetrees, Chester Conklin, Ben Turpin and Stepin Fetchit are involved in the itinerant sentimentalities. The villain is the ringmaster and has a mustachio...
Divorced. George Sunday, son of Evangelist William ("Hit-the-Sawdust-Trail") Sunday; by Mrs. Harriet May Sunday. Uncontested charges: he drank excessively, hit her, associated with other women...
...sawmill. Sapling forests will be harvested-perhaps by Paul Bunyanesque mowing machines-and put through a process which will reduce their fibres to a mossy mat; then remolded, remade into wood, of any dimension, any hardness. This process is now being used in Mississippi to manufacture "Masonite" from sawdust, chips and other refuse lumber...