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...sang a group of girls and boys, waving their hats or their handkerchiefs from the porch of Camp Roosevelt, when the Presi- dent arrived in Yellowstone Park. In response, the President bowed; Mrs. Coolidge bowed, smiled; John Coolidge bowed, smiled. The song's lack of variety was balanced by its peculiar pertinency; the President had left Rapid City the night before, suffering from indigestion but had now recovered...
...President, the Constitution of the U. S. bestows enormous discretionary powers; in the case of a conflict between the laws of Church and State, a Catholic Presi dent might be forced to deviate from his oath of office, or his allegiance to the Church. According to Roman Catholic law, education is a religious activity and be longs to the Church ; in U. S. theory it is a secular activity and belongs to the State.* According to the Roman Catholic Church (Pope Leo XIII): "It is not lawful for the State ... to disregard all religious duties or to hold in equal...
...public auditorium of which Portland, Ore., is proud, Conductor Willem van Hoogstraten last week led his symphony orchestra through an orgy of fantasy. A native of Portland, Dent Mowrey, had studied music in Paris, and in dreamy moments had idled over the lle de la Cité, whereon is the Cathedral of Notre Dame. Student Mowrey would enter the felted front doors, would sniff at the dank air, would think he could hear the paint cracking on the pictures. Outdoors, on the grey square, he would crane his head up at the rain-spouts, which old artisans had carved...
Although the scrimmage had occupied the greater part of an hour, Coach Horween elected to keep his first string eleven intact, and once more the ineligibles were given the ball on their own 20-yard line. Two line plunges failed to dent the Crimson torward wall, and on the following play the Princeton backfield mixed its signals and the ball sailed over the goal-line, where Crawford overwhelmed by four Crimson linemen, managed to recover the pigskin. Two points were, however, added to the University total through the medium of a safety...
...spectacle." One Peter Ormerod, fresh from Harvard, a successful Manhattan lawyer, goes to California in 1855 in behalf of his client, Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt. Now Peter is often called "ugly" by his author, but he has steel in his biceps, adventure in his red corpuscles. In California where playboys dent the bars with their nuggets, he meets the "doctor- lawyer-journalist-soldier -states-man," William Walker, the original "manifest destiny" man, who believes that "America must round her territories by the sea," that he must help her by becoming the Napoleon of Nicaragua. Peter drinks deep of destiny, joins...