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Canton, seat of Stark County, Ohio, had quieted down for the night. The late President McKinley and his wife slept the long sleep in their granite mausoleum on Monument Hill, with the distant flare of an all-night blast furnace occasionally spreading a ruddy glow over the bronze statue of McKinley, standing tall and pensive above the coffins. Every night the bronze McKinley stands there brooding over Canton, which is as ill-favored as growing industrial towns seem fated to be. At night, however, outward ugliness vanishes and the pensive statue seems to express sorrow over the internal, unseen uglinesses...
Three blasts of a whistle . . . "Put your wheel hard over!" . . . bells clamored full speed reverse . . . a red flare gashed the night . . . the crash...
...women, beginning with some warm young Brazilians. The New Englander is told off to inculcate hygiene in this young Marcantonio, whose passions incline also to driving highpowered motor cars and training with spasmodic vehemence to become an Olympic foot-racer. The hygienic regimen is balked by Marcantonio's incestuous flare-up with his half-sister, ending in suicide...
This matter which has caused a flare-up of violent controversy during the past month, is of particular moment to Harvard students at this time with the Student Federation's college poll coming on Saturday...
...that it will hold an open meeting for all members of the University on next Tuesday. Modelled on the debating unions of Oxford and Cambridge, this organization originally filled a vacant niche in the extra-curriculum world and provided opportunity for informal witty speaking. Last year, following the brief flare of the presidential campaign clubs, its intermittent energy waned again...