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Student reports and criticisms of college conditions are spreading with a rapidity which, might give the meditative cynics an opportunity for the sneering epithet, fad. Were it not for the respectful attention faculties give these undergraduate analyses, they should deserve the appellation in some measure. But the fact that educational authorities in many cases accept the suggestions raises the reports from the sphere of fads to a more practical domain...
...Manhattan theatreful of the East's leading fad-connoisseurs fell into expensive hush, breathlessly hoping that all they had heard from Americanos lately abroad was even partly true. Glad tidings had come from widest sources; from jaded novelists and strong-minded grandmothers, from callow collegians and a onetime U. S. foreign ambassador, who had circulated verses that were but feebly expressive of the ecstasy that called them forth. The evening had even been signalized by a cable from the King of Spain?his thanks in advance for America's "homage to Spanish...
...goes among the audience with little violet bunches to offer musingly, withdraw capriciously, bestow impetuously, the starched and bejeweled Manhattanites arose and cheered. Her acknowledgment was?a quiet curtsy. More cheers. She sang an encore. The final "Brava!" The audience went home to talk it over, a new fad that promises to last weeks after Meller's departure...
...years after the marriage Prince Bismarck humored one of his strangest whims. He commenced to make a fad of weighing himself and measuring his family. The weights he kept to himself. On Dec. 31, 1880, he pasted some statistics on his bedroom wall...
...sand up-on the ruts where first his chariot wheels carved their royal course, long have the mysteries of death been open sesame to him, yet this king, no older than the Shavian Cleopatra, still survives. Once the leader of a kingdom, again the leader of a Twentieth Century fad, Tutankhamen has within the week eclipsed contemporary suns with the shadow of his majesty. For labor leaders, finance ministers, and even divorcees are never buried in coffins of gold in an eternal setting of jewels. A people hungry for the glints of splendor find much to amuse and thrill their...