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Leaving these trenchant remarks behind him, " the sphinx in the soft felt hat" departed. Colonel House, although a keen observer, does not often set down his observations, especially about men. He might well be called a Boswell without a pen. In his youth, according to the well known story in the Mirrors of Washington, he went to Hopkins School in New Haven, intending to enter Yale. But when his friend Morton (son of the Democratic Governor of Indiana) failed to pass the entrance examinations for Yale, young House followed his friend to Cornell...
...long been something of an axiom among musicians that for outdoor concerts the band is the thing. It has been thought that the weaker voice of the orchestra, with its soft strings and woodwind, was lost in an open space. This idea is changing. The cause of the change is to be found in the improvement in sounding boards. An orchestra playing in front of and partly under a great, cavern-like sound deflector contrives to project its tone to the audience quite acceptably...
When a sharp tongue takes to soft words, good nature prospers. Pat Harrison of Mississippi, Democratic whip of the Senate, wrote an article which appeared in The New Orleans Item. He referred to Dr. Harding, the President's father (who recently visited a reunion of Confederate veterans) as the " human, bighearted, broadminded father of a distinguished and thoroughly human son." He also dilated upon the warm reception given by the President and Mrs. Harding to 200 Confederate Veterans whom he (Harrison) had taken to call at the White House. His remarks did not go unnoticed. President Harding wrote...
...called marathon dancing was handed another bouquet when the French Dancing Federation announced that hard-boiled shirts and evening dress would be de rigeur from 8 P. M. to 6 A. M. during the six-day contest now taking place in Paris. In the daytime soft shirts and soft white collars are prescribed...
...been planned to start practice tomorrow, but due to the soft condition of the field, the men will probably not get outdoors until vacation. It is expected, however, that they will have a longer period of spring practice than has been customary in the past. There will be only one week's drill on fundamentals, and then the team will play several informal contests including one game already scheduled with Northeastern University...