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Last week, with the Black Horse Troop in solemn attendance and a group of First Citizens as special guests, the Chicago Historical Society opened to the public its spic & span new $1,000,000 Colonial edifice in Lincoln Park...
...life-sized, representing the waternymph in Milton's Comiis, Sabrina was presented to Amherst College in 1857 by one Joel .Hayden. For her nudity Sabrina became the object of many a practical joke. In 1890 the college authorities ordered her removed. Soon there began a series of frantic, tenacious, solemn battles over Sabrina, between the odd-numbered and even-numbered classes. She was first captured and hidden away in 1893. Thereafter Sabrina became known as the ''Goddess of Lord Jeffs." There arose Sabrina-traditions. Those in possession were "Sabrina Men" and must keep the statue hidden, appointing annually...
...With the solemn blessings of the Archbishop of Canterbury and the Bishop of London bestowed upon it, and a happy crowd to cheer its going, a trim white ship sped down the Thames and out to sea last July. It was the Southern Cross , VI, a 220-ton, 150-ft. motorship. latest and prettiest of a succession of Church of England vessels carrying the gospel to faraway isles...
...Venner two years ago came complaining about the terms of its lease of The Big Four and Michigan Central. So, he had to sue. And what's more he had to take his suit to the high court of Washington. Of course the Supreme Court, by solemn decision of Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes handed down last week, upheld the New York Central leases. But Old Man Venner was the gainer-because he had carried out his threat of suit so that the next corporation he attacks will know that what Old Man Venner says Old Man Venner means...
Education has too long been taken for granted in America. Democratic theory has enshrined it as an indisputable right; but there is no right with-out duty. It is the inescapable and solemn task of both institutions and individuals to fulfill that duty...