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...enticed away from it by the lure of athletics and managerships does not command credence by its cleverness. One suspects that a good many of Mr. Williams' fellow Freshmen were out quite openly in search of the good time which it appears circumstances forced down his own unwilling throat. Those were, one understands, the good old days; and whoever supposes that all our fathers and uncles went to college for learning alone does vast injustice to the animal and liquid spirits of their generation...
Animal Experimentation. "Anyone who has seen a child, succumbing to the gradual encroachment of the diphtheria membrane in its throat, suddenly respond to the marvelous effects of a diphtheria antitoxin will oppose to the utmost any attempt to deprive the child of that remedy. . . .I have seen guinea pigs by the thousands utilized for that purpose. . . .I have never seen a guinea pig suffer as much as a hysterical antivivisectionist at a dog show...
Developments in the Press were naturally lass capable of being accurately evaluated, but reflected a general tone of condemnation for Mr. Mellon and sympathy for M. Caillaux. The French temperament exploded into many lurid headlines and wild words, such as: "France, with a knife at her throat is being offered up to a God more detestable than the God of War!" But two questions were asked everywhere that summed up the tenor of thinking Frenchmen's worries: 1) How can France keep up her prestige in Europe for another five years, without knowing what her total obligations will eventually...
...President's rose fever became severe. He visited his throat specialist seven times more within a few days. On Sunday he was scarce able to so to church...
...even this disillusionment could not unseat the nice balance of Comrade Gulliver's judgment. He was able to keep his self-control on realizing that New York Postoffice guards carry revolvers: "What a dreadful idea that we can get a bullet in the throat, not in a furious insurrection, but simply for the safe transporation of money. Unmoved, he looked upon "railroad terminals . . . monuments to the capitalistic mammon . . . far less artistic than at Berlin...