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...borne past the City Hall at Cork, soldiers stationed there came to attention and their officers saluted. Opinions differ widely as to the wisdom of the Sinn Fein movement and as to its ultimate bearing upon the happiness of Ireland; but true men everywhere will join in that token of respect and admiration. To MacSwiney the liberal measure of freedom which Great Britain offers, and the prosperity which has already been achieved, are as nothing in comparison with the territorial and military independence of his people; and in that conviction he made every sacrifice...
...country will take the cost of living to be the paramount issue of the November elections. The average man is a selfish beast, and holds his material comfort at home above the welfare of his more distant neighbors. Self-interest is a natural instinct, and by more than one token is it apparent that the hopes of business prosperity, more nearly equable tariff adjustments, trade stimulation and national economy which the election of a Republican ticket seems to insure, will prevail over the continuation of a Democratic administration with its attendant ills, and the promise of "going...
...ceremonies consist of the forty-five present members of the senior societies, Skull and Bones, Scroll & Key, and Wolf's Head, appearing one by one on the campus and every one slapping a member of the present junior class as a token of his election, ordering him to go to his room, where he is formally notified of his election in private. --Boston Transcript...
...that Thomas W. Lamont, of J. P. Morgan & Company, was a chorus girl upon a time. This year the club offers an amateur musical comedy of which the whole cast is made up of men who have been in the service. The resumption of "the Pudding" is a sure token of the fact that Harvard is itself again. Boston Herald...
...Roll of Honor now stands in the entrance corridor of the Widener Library building, and since Memorial Day several names have already been added to the list. It is frankly a contemporary memorial, a current token of recognition, not intended to stand as the University's permanent tribute to its fallen sons. From London a correspondent of the Bulletin has recently written: "At University College yesterday I saw one side of the corridor lined with photographs, four rows deep of graduates and students killed in this war. When one goes the provost writes a letter of sympathy and asks...