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...keep him making chairs-they were going to keep him a number, marooned in a prison? Well, then, he would talk. He would give names, dates, conversations. He would disclose the hiding place of documentary evidence proving his statements. It took a lot more than 19 months to fade the signature off a canceled check. When he was through they would "need a new wing for the prison...
...first appear too Roman for a New England college but experience has shown that the saviour of youthful virility lies in the fact that eventually the "porters" will dwindle into a lone and not over magnificent janitor; that the "maids and bellboys", if such there be, will fade into legend: that the pomp of circumstance will prove disappointingly evanescent...
Trivia are all these; of such trivia was last week's news compiled. But newspaper publishers tremble to think now soon their vaunted circulations would fade away if there were no trivia to intrigue the eyes of gossip-hungry readers. And last week's trivia were the more remarkable in that the sole value lay in echoes. There were echoes of old scandal, old romance, of famed names. Or, perhaps, they were more like bones than echoes, musty bones dug up by the professional gravediggers of the press for the wayfaring reader, who might cry "Alas, poor Yorick...
...incredible Brown after they left New Haven and Cambridge? All collegiate heroes of fiction draw the public interest because they are supposed to throw the spotlight on what goes on, and how, behind the academic walls. It is the wise author who lets his dashing young rascal fade into obscurity with his A. B. under his arm and the aureole of glamor still about his head. One had as leave read about Tom Swift after his adventures are over and his magic flying machine stabled in the garage, as pursue the maturity of the plastic age settling into stodgy concrete...
Academic thoughts and fancies should, and probably will, fade as quickly as the iris and narcissus so carefully planted in one's rooms only to bloom for the janitor's delectation during Christmas vacation. But strange to say, the world will be no husk, no empty shell. There will be left, among other things...