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...afternoon last week there was a great dinging and donging in the belfry of the First Methodist Episcopal Church at Rochester, N. H. Factory workers, puzzled by the sudden outburst, paused in the street on their way home to ask questions. Rev. Jonathan N. Armistead, all aglow with happy excitement, loudly explained: "It's to celebrate the Wickersham Commission report. We just heard about...
Whereas these raw gobbets and undigested morsels of knowledge floated by this too sudden immerston in the Pierian Springs are unpleasant to see hartily regurgitated over a cup of coffee. Whereas a three hour examination can only serve to uncover the lack of knowledge rather than its presence. Wheres these examinations are thus only methods to jam the wind-pipes of the unwilling. Whereas the resulting mental dyspopsis has never yet produced a Carlyle and Whereas, dyspopsis or no dyspopsis, everyone is pretty well fed up: the Vagabond hereby inaugurates his first active crusade. The Examination must go. Alone...
Those who know Princeton's President John Grier Hibben are often surprised by such sudden sallies from his apparently innocent mind. He exemplifies, certainly, the charming, scholarly type of college president rather than the boisterous and administrative. For this reason he was chosen, as a compromise candidate, after Princeton trustees had been deadlocked for two years in trying to elect a successor to the provocative Woodrow Wilson. But Dr. Hibben took up the reins discarded by that active dreamer with no lack of confidence and soon was working out his own dreams of a university...
...woman exhibitions in London. Then her husband's old school friend, Peter Stanley, took a cottage near them. He wanted quiet to write a book in, country air to breathe. The three saw a lot of each other; Caroline painted Peter's picture. All of a sudden Caroline found she was in love with him. But she was pretty sure she still loved her husband too. Just the same she might have given herself to Peter, but he decided against it and stuck to his decision long enough to get away. When Caroline told Maurice she and Peter...
...water-jump from Jamaica to the Canal-longest water-jump on any sched uled airline (662 mi.). Not only Pan American will scrutinize the new passenger operation, but also the observers for Imperial Airways and Aeropostale, interested with it in the projected transatlantic service. Meanwhile, profound mystery surrounded the sudden withdrawal of the Post Office advertisement for bids for the transatlantic mail contract. Assistant Postmaster General Glover would say only that the advertisement had to be revised, and unnamed "ambiguities" straightened out. But Representative Joseph W. Byrns opined it was because the Post Office had neither the authority to establish...