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Such a brilliant scheme will at once commend itself to the law-maker. Behind a barricade of sideburns, the "pro's" and the "con's" will be alike unrecognizable, and can slip by the watchers ere the latter can penetrate their disguises. It will, of course, be a trifle hard on the general public; many an old farmer on a sight-seeing tour will be mistaken for a legislator and questioned concerning the cotton-planter's trust or the Society for the Preservation of Indigent Africans...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: BEARDING THE LEGISLATURE | 2/14/1922 | See Source »

...find it necessary to cover each historical incident with a sugar coating of story (with hero, heroine, 'u' everything) and label it "drama", many would not be surprised. Be that as it may, the use of the motion picture in schools as part of the regular instruction, is bound ere long to become widespread. Yet who would have predicted, a few years ago, that boys and girls would soon be sitting before the silver sheet as unwillingly as they now start at their "'rithmetics" and "'gografies...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SHADOWS OF THE PAST | 2/13/1922 | See Source »

...Sherrard Billings '80 of Groton School. All members of the University are cordially invited to attend, and a special program of music will be rendered by the Appleton Chapel Choir. The selections which will be given are as follows: "When He was Born," Neapolitan Carol "Lo, How a Rose ere Blooming," Praetorius "Adoramus Te," Palestrina

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Services at St. Paul's Sunday | 12/12/1919 | See Source »

...point in the tide of college activities beyond the regular courses. At that time practically every activity which in some degree did not spring from military courses was either non-existent or well along the road to become so. The ink was searcely dry on the armistice papers, however, ere the grim spectre of militarism was promptly forgotten in the eager planning for a speedy return to the ante-bellum order of things. The steady maturing of these hastily made plans is swiftly removing the "war paint" from the University...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE SPIRIT OF THE TIMES. | 2/14/1919 | See Source »

...possible that in its later stages, as new genius is evolved, the war may lose its earlier anonymity. For of course, the personal equation must remain the determining factor. Yet if our Civil War offers a precedent, there will need to be a considerable winnowing ere the final heroes are upheaved. Boston Advertiser

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: An Anonymous War. | 11/24/1917 | See Source »

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