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...This is no time for demagogs. There is always the temptation to some men to stir up class prejudice. Against that effort I set myself uncompromisingly. . . . I will take off my coat and vest and fight to the end against any candidate who persists in any demagogic appeal to the masses of the working people of this country to destroy themselves by setting class against class and rich against poor...
...statement challenging the integrity of Harvard men and Harvard progressiveness, the conservative source of "Today's Truth--Tomorrow's Trend," reports that cribbing has not reached Harvard 'yet'. Such a discrediting imputation should serve to stir the University to a ferment of activity and reform. Even the Republicans would be stimulated to reform should they learn that the Prohibition racket had not yet come to Washington...
Considerable stir occurred in Yard circles Saturday when it was found that in anticipation of an attack on the Harvard Hall bell, newly located in the loft of the now chapel, Major Apted had placed one of his men in the upper regions of Thayer Hall. The watchman, ready to give the alarm if a light should appear in the steelwork of the chapel tower, was not, as some have said, celebrating the coming holiday. For the seventh consecutive day, however, Memorial Hall was in silence at the turn of the hour, and it looks as though the clapper case...
...there dropped down over the great stone buildings a profound silence. There is something calm in a busy city that is uneasy and restive, for it is the calm of men skulking in dark alleys and of vague shadows on brick walls. The strange lack of sound sent a stir through the King's Guard and they swaggered a trifie obviously as they strode about the streets that night...
...treatments for his "glass arm" had not kept Conductor Toscanini so long in Italy (TIME, March 14 et ante), the world première of his friend Ottorino Respighi's Maria Egiziaca might have caused more stir last week. Toscanini planned to direct the production. But instead Composer Respighi came. He relegated Philharmonic Symphony players to a dark corner of the Carnegie Hall stage. In their usual place a great gilt-framed triptych stood, spattered with stars and angels. Angels opened the triptych, disclosed three panels rudely painted to suggest a ship docked in the harbor of Alexandria...