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...there are two ways to attain fame. One either has to be a character like Wet Representative La Guardia who has spent all summer trying to be arrested, or Dry Representative Upshaw, who sees hellfire in every drink; or else be a leader like Speaker Nicholas Longworth or Representatives Burton, Garrett and Madden, who are known by "the boys." Representative Mills is distinctly in the leader category, because of his financial wisdom and his prominence in New York State...
Officers of the band for the coming year are: Ambrose Francis Keeley '27, of Fall River, Director; Robert Thornton Smith '27, of Saco, Me,; President; Randolph Piper '27, of Lexington, Manager: Charles Philip Englehardt '28, Secretary; Samuel Ganz '28, Treasurer; and Louis Burton Benjamin '29, Librarian. Contrary to the practice of the Harvard University Band Club in previous years, members will be elected at the close of the football season instead of in the spring. The members of Band Club are chosen on the basis of their work during the past season...
...Professor Richard Burton believes that college sometimes helps, but often hinders.' Professor William Lyon Phelps feels that 'colleges of course do not make geniuses, nor can they frustrate them.' And he adds, 'in teaching my drama course, I tell them I haven't the slightest idea of making dramatists out of them, but I hope to make them intelligent, appreciative and therefore happy auditors...
...were thrusting out of his nature to the very depth of his discussion. He was an unabashed moralist, some said Puritan, but seldom to the neglect of art's due. Now there are left, besides the Messers. Canby, Boyd and Mencken, Critics Carl and Mark Van Doren, Burton Rascoe, Louis Untermeyer (poetry), Ludwig Lewisohn, Joseph Wood Krutch. There is unique, felicitous Dr. William Lyons Phelps. There are notable book conmentators and appreciators; John Farrar (The Bookman), Mary Colum, Isabel Patterson, Grant Overton, Harry Hansen (vice gusty Lawrence Stallings on the N. Y. World), George Sterling (San Francisco), William Allen...
...work with his flourishing big double-C signature. Cabinet members (all except Secretary of the Treasury Mellon were present) and learned Senators were called to his side to give a word or two of hasty advice. Six minor bills (such as "an act to reinstate Joe Burton Coursey in the West Point Military Academy") aroused the President's suspicion, so he decided to take them home. Failure to sign these six within ten days will kill them by "pocket veto...