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...many students, if any, were beguiled by the appeliation of "cultured young American" into answering the questionnaires anent the modern girl sent out recently by a New York daily, will never be known; nor what heights of wit were reached by the frivolous minded. The whole absurd business, however, marks still more plainly a phenomenon of the last few years; a persistent attempt on the part of certain newspapers and magazines to "play up" the life of the college student. A college suicide, a fatal automobile accident involving an undergraduate is featured in headlines worthy of a declaration...
Therefore let there be violins and, for this once, even let there be saxaphones. Tonight a Gothic gaiety envelops Cambridge. The Gothic we have always with as hat the gaiety that we owe to the ladies. As Tiny Tim observed anent something or other God bless them every...
...Anent the list of "J. B's" in which the name of John Brashares appears (TiME...
...Viscount Lascelles his satisfaction that the latter must await his father's death to become an earl. From this unspoken taunt springs the dislike between them which is common knowledge. Therefore, last week, British clubmen cackled loudly at a mot which Lord Lascelles was said to have made anent the London slumming exploits of Edward of Wales: "One would think he got near enough to the dirt at Melton Mowbray [the hunting centre where Edward has so often fallen off his horse into...
...Steel is now remodeling its Homestead plant to manufacture beams of this type. Anent this, Judge Gary said, in the Iron Trade Review: "We are building a mill which will be prepared to manufacture a wide flange beam." Bethlehem President Grace countered: "Bethlehem has an exclusive license under numerous patents which have several years to run, and which cover the process for rolling the so-called broad-flanged sections as a product." It may be that the Judge, always perspicacious, is looking far years ahead. Yet the ingredients of a fight already exist...