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...gratified with TIME, Oct. 3. My pleasure was derived from the sight of Graham McNamee on the coyer. How great he looms in these days 'tis hard to estimate. He is assumedly an artist with great abilities, and astonishing power (nine men died from the excitements aroused by Mr. McNamee's voice...
...collectively dismayed and none too impressed by the quarrels of their stay-behind cousins back in Europe. He soothes Revolutionary rancor by embracing Washington, Franklin, Hancock, et al., as Englishmen and even appeals to the Empire spirit of Britons by revealing a bevy of immigrant children singing "My Country "Tis of Thee" to the same tune as "God Save the King." He reminds England that President Wilson said "too proud to fight" to Mexico, not Europe, and that the man (Horatio Bottomley), who reported that Americans were wearing "We Won the War" buttons, was later jailed by England for another...
...tomorrow comes: and its own troubles with it. There is festivity indeed--for the invading hordes. But the Senior is pervaded by a deep and abiding sense of the futility of things. Even the great world looks like a longed-for heaven. "Tis Well! Out he goes...
...Tis a strange tale--this story of a Princetonian-CRIMSON picnic on the banks of the Charles celebrated by a special issue of the Harvard paper burlesquing the break between the two Universities. Older and more experienced heads in positions of influence in these worthy institutions might well profit by the example set by their young colleagues. --Yale Daily News...
...therefore, of Canada's beneficial institutions that the first boy-speaker, Herbert Moran of Toronto, told. After he had finished, the band played "God Save the King," which a lot of the children mistook for "My Country 'Tis of Thee" because the tune was the same, and up stepped William Meades Newton of Liverpool, England, to tell about the benefits of the British Empire. Nearly every one recognized the next anthem without difficulty, "The Star Spangled Banner," which heralded the performance of the champion U. S. school orator, Herbert Wenig of Los Angeles. Herbert repeated the piece...