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...face of 6,000,000 approving signatures, may I subscribe mine as opposed to the Star Spangled Banner as the national anthem? Should not such a song bear the same relation to the nation that the alma mater song bears to the college? Viewed from this angle, could anyone imagine the inclusion in, say, Fair Harvard, of lines and allusions to a dramatic forward pass or touchdown in the Yale game of 1901? In just this way does the Star Spangled Banner, splendidly patriotic though it be, but manifestly a battle song, commemorate a specific event in a specific...
...opening manifesto went out to six million British homes, not as propaganda but in the news columns of the "Beavermere" press. It was topped by banner headlines, buttressed by editorials and addressed with shrewd psychology to "men and women...
...even the French, recognized specialists along those lines, realize that another well-populated nation has learned how to make love. This transportation and transplanting of the gentler arts of living to blossom like a rose even in the desert lands around Salt Lake City marks another triumph under the banner of the dollar sign. Bitter will be American globe-trotters and steamship lines when the culture-minded will see America last as well as first and hesitate to venture into barbarous and depleted Europe. Thanks are due to M. Morand who finally has made the startling discovery that...
Furthermore, barring Seniors from participation in athletics would rob many a man of his banner year on the gridiron, rink, or diamond. Scholastic duties reach their peak in the Senior year of a man's college career but a student should then also be at his peak of maturity. If a man has not learned by his Senior year how to divide his time between sports and studies the chances are he never will...
...high-vaulted committee room resounded with a sample rendition of "The Star Spangled Banner" by the U. S. Navy Band. Two sopranos sang all its four verses to prove that its words were not difficult, that its pitch was not too high. Proudly Captain Walter I. Joyce of the Veterans of Foreign Wars dumped before the Committee a great bale of documents which he said contained 6,020.000 signatures petitioning the anthem's official adoption. Said he: "I stood on San Juan Hill in '98 and heard four bands play that tune. All around me in pup tents...