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...will see-all the world will love me." Thus spoke the little French girl who, soon after her death in 1897, became known to all the world as "The Little Flower of Jesus." Beatified in 1923-the Roman Catholic officials waiving the custom that 50 years must elapse before a "cause" is begun-she was canonized in 1925 as St. Thérèse of the Infant Jesus...
...Norwood fell ill last week. Union deviated from its custom, awarded him his degree in absentia...
...Lafayette College (Easton, Pa.) observed its 100th commencement. For the first time, the graduating class breakfasted in a body with President & Mrs. William Mather Lewis, hoped to make it an annual custom. Last month Lafayette had extensive centennial celebrations. Of 6,000 living alumni, some 1,600 (over 25%) were present, which was reckoned a record for any college. Proud also is Lafayette of The Biography of a College,* recently published, a compendious but lively account of its growth by Secretary of the Board of Trustees David B. Skillman...
...present rarely attempted, and which can, because it does not depend on poetry and fiction for all its material, maintain a consistently high standard for the poetry and fiction which it does print. For the Advocate editors to do this would be doubly difficult. They would have to ignore custom and habit, and build up a new reputation, perhaps losing much that is good in their old reputation. However, there is an excellent opportunity for a group of ambititious young men, who would take the whole University as their realm, who would be read by graduates and instructors...
...minded President Dr. Enrique Olaya Herrera surprised his countrymen by issuing without warning last week two decrees: the first prohibits from July 1 "the sale of alcoholic beverages, except beer, between 6 p.m. and 6 a.m. and on Sundays and holidays;" the second strikes directly at the old Colombian custom of gun-toting, drastically restricts imports of firearms, stiffens the requirements for licenses to carry them...