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...competition for 1936 in News, Business and Photographic departments will begin on February 8 for the usual eight-week period. This is also the first opportunity for Sophomores to try out for the Editorial Board. The second competition in the same departments will begin on April 14, after the Easter holidays and will end in the second week of the final reading period. Freshmen are seldom handicapped by unfamiliarity with the University and its history...
...Public worship must ordinarily take place in premises granted to the Church, but exceptionally the State will issue permits for open air worship and religious festivals, such as Seville's famed Easter processions...
...Band played a special "Madison's March." Since then it has played a new march at every inaugural. The Marine Band was General La Fayette's bodyguard when he visited Yorktown and Mount Vernon in 1824. Andrew Jackson had the band in to play for the first Easter Egg Rolling and White House Children's Party. Abraham Lincoln asked the band to Gettysburg when he made his famed address; in his time it was by Act of Congress expanded to "one Drum Major, one Principal Musician, 30 musicians for the band, 60 drummers and 60 fifers...
...With Easter's devil-may-care father to take them to circuses and horse races; with Plenty of ponies in the enormous stables and old Jer Donohughe's hounds to follow, it seems to the children that pleasures will never end. But along comes the War. Easter's father is killed. Follows Ireland's revolutionary unrest. Encircling Puppetstown, the lovely mountains Mandoran, Moncooin and the Black Stall are infested with Sinn Feiners. Aunts Dicksie and Brenda still keep open house, entertain the Army officers from nearby. One day one of them, motoring with Brenda, is ambushed...
...England the children are expensively educated, and expected to be expensively wed. In their new sophistication they forget their wild Irish days. Evelyn, graduated from Oxford, gets betrothed to Lady Middleton's marmoreal daughter Sarah, but when Easter and Basil see the trim life to which he is doomed they clear for home. Puppetstown has become a moldering tomb, Aunt Dicksie a crotchety recluse. She hates to have the children spoil her frigid peace, but warms to them and to life in the end. Puppetstown resounds again with the laughing speech learned from immemorial tradition and the local Blarney...