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During the period of the final examinations, an organ recital will be given daily, except Sundays, at the conclusion of morning prayers in Appleton Chapel. The recital will be over by ten minutes after nine. The program for today follows: Aria da Chiesa Unknown Authorship Gavotte in Rb Handel
...Because Senator Harding, while admitting that he has "no single constructive purpose," intends to formulate some hazy substitute League that will have the merit of Republican, not Democratic, authorship. This is tantamount to admitting that he would ask the 43 members of the present League, which has already prevented one war and stopped another, and which in the words of ex-President Taft conflicts at no point with the United States Constitution, to renounce their hopeful work, disband their League, and, to please him and the Republican Party, "rub it out and do it all over again...
...Page has had a notable literary and diplomatic career. After studying at Washington and Lee University, he devoted himself to authorship, writing such well known books as "Marse Chan," "Two Little Confederates," "Bred in the Bone," and "Thomas Jefferson, the Apostle of Liberty." In 1913 he was appointed by President Wilson to the post of United States Ambassador to Italy, which he occupied with distinction until his resignation a few weeks...
...today as we had twenty or thirty years ago. And it is this that makes me doubtful as to the value to literature of our enormous machinery of higher education-it is this that puzzles and rather depresses me when I think of the connection between college education and authorship...
...question is that a man who is blessed with a genius for writing will become an author with or without college training. Mark Twain gained his college training in a printing office and a pilot house, and Cooper gained his on board a fighting ship. Schools of authorship will probably never exist, for the man who specializes in the art of authorship will need little help in the selection of his courses. College training will help these men of gifted ability, but it can never produce them. The reasons for the lack of literary geniuses during a certain period must...