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...faculty and students of Harvard University. The Crimson, having made a canvass within that institution, has discovered that The Nation ranks third on the list of weekly magazines in popularity among those who voted in this referendum. Only the Saturday Evening Post and Liberty surpassed us in the esteem of the thinkers in our oldest American university. Advertising agencies and national advertisers will please take notice that in esteem, if not in circulation, we outrank the Ladies' Home Journal, the Pictorial Review, Vanity Fair, Judge, Life, and the Police Gazette. Who shall say hereafter that the highbrow student does...
Alexander of Macedon ("The Great"), though he died many a century before George Washington, is still held in a mellow, Washingtonian esteem at Samarkand. The natives appear to have forgiven that he sacked and burned their city, remember only how he wrought great glory there, and refer to him affectionately as "Iskander Macedonski...
Friedrich Wilhelm, sometime German Crown Prince, received a tribute of esteem last week from pre-War U. S. Ambassador to Germany James Watson Gerard. Said Mr. Gerard, speaking at the Lawyers Club, Manhattan: "The Crown Prince is a man of far greater ability, to my mind, than his father, and I think he is one of the most shamefully maligned individuals in the civilized world. Possibly on that account he will not be called to the throne; but the chances are that his eldest son Wilhelm, who is quite a fine young man, will be. Politically, of course, anything...
...John E. Williams, Vice Chancellor of Nanking University, was the sole U. S. citizen killed, last week, in China. An earnest and simple Christian, he was held in affectionate esteem by thousands of Chinese. Of him Dr. Keigwin, pastor of the Manhattan congregation which maintained Dr. Williams in China, said, on learning of his death, "Jack Williams was one of the best friends China ever had.... If he could speak he would say he accounted it a privilege to go to the Cross as Christ went...
...gentleman who canceled his subscription to TIME because it printed an attack on West Virginia, her inhabitants and their customs, written by one Zweiger of Ohio, injures himself in the esteem of the mostly intelligent people who read that excellent weekly...