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...course I am expecting the objection that Franklin's activity in France and de Valera's in America are not similar, and that the sacrifices in bodies and blood by Irishmen before the altar of Liberty are not like the successful bloodshed of your human ancestors, the American Revolutionists. I admit the objection. Eamon de Valera is not Benjamin Franklin, and Sinn Feiners are not American Revolutionists. The implication is plain; it tends to explain the CRIMSON's attitude...
...graduate of those days would hardly recognize the present Union, center as it is, of so many college activities--a Union sprung, quite phoenix-like, from the ashes of the old. The ten dollars which he then reluctantly tossed on the altar of charity for the support of a supernumerary club in which he took no interest, is now replaced by seven-fifty well invested, bringing dividends of enjoyment and profit far exceeding the dreams of the Union founders...
Pussyfoot Johnson's eye may not make England dry by 1930, as the prohibition workers boast, but it has certainly given John Bull something to think about. American actors and comedians have long been popular in Europe-everyone in France worships at Charlie Chaplin's altar-but we doubt the amount of applause that will greet Mr. Johnson's tour of the British Isles in the leading role of Claire Briggs's "Somebody is Always Taking the Joy Out of Life...
...type an individuality at once winning and intriguing, Robin is a capital example of that type of Englishlad who left the playing fields of Eton and Harrow, the clositered seclusion of Oxford, or the placide reaches of the Cam to fling his life, a care-free sacrifice, on the altar of England's glory...
...small pinnacle of an altar-piece, representing the Crucifixion, by Pietro Lorenzetti is now at the Fogg Art Museum as an indefinite loan. The date of the picture is set as sometime in the first half of the fourteenth century...