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...story is just such a one as any returned soldier might tell in any American home, and yet it is not without its elements of characteristic humor--as witness the butcher from the Windy City stockyards who is said to have written to his Chicago Mabel that the job wasn't so very different from his regular job at home only "not so regular...
...didn't science prevent the war?'" said Dean Brown of Yale in answer to the last question. "The reason our Christianity failed was because there wasn't enough of it, and what there was wasn't of the right sort...
...trouble with this," explained the great political economist, "was that it wasn't tough enough for the readers' taste. So a novel developed that was staged in the open, where the heroine was always Miss Middleton--always the Miss." Mr. Leacock went on to describe the hair-breadth escape from the Apaches of the typical couple alone far out in the wilderness; how the hero lowers the girl 200 feet down a precipice with his lariat, and they ride off together over the prairie to the little railway station, where they are to separate forever...
...this wasn't satisfactory. We come to the indoor novel again. The modern man doesn't want a book where the people are sure to be married; he wants a story where the people can't get married because they're married already. His story always begins in cabaret where 'The Man' meets the 'Wife of the Other Man' what a fascination those words have for him! The point of the modern novel is to get these two into some delicate position, we used to call it indelicate. The proper situation is this: The Man must walk by accident...
...wasn't the formal dinners and speeches to the Unit, it was rubbing shoulders with British surgeons over operating tables when the big push was on, working over Tommies and dough-boys alike--that was what made the Harvard Surgical Unit No. 22 a factor in knitting together a permanent Anglo-American friendship." This was the opinion expressed to a CRIMSON reporter yesterday by Captain Henry W. Woodward M.D. 15, who has been abroad with the University Unit since...