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...Hearat, from the true words of the prophet in the Boston American, October 26. We always take such modesty from Mr. Hearst with large lumps of salt. It is interesting to speculate on how absence from Harvard does not make its heart grow fonder...
...last week when the University of Wisconsin's Dr. Ross Stagner reported a survey which seemed factually to confirm its validity. Addressing the American Sociological Society in Chicago. Dr. Stagner said he had questioned a large group of boys & girls in their 'teens, found the girls invariably fonder of their fathers, the boys invariably fonder of their mothers. Dr. Stagner found that when children were reprimanded the Freudian "censor" (which ordinarily keeps the unconscious buried) was likely to be off guard, that boys then resented scoldings more from fathers than from mothers, that the converse was true...
...soon after the Civil War might well have caused more bloodshed. Rutherford Hayes was born in Delaware, Ohio, in 1822, a posthumous child, descendant of sturdy New England yeomen gone pioneering westward. Studious, ambitious, active, Hayes was "of a rather gay nature, a good talker, fond of men and fonder of women." He studied law, practiced it, but was glad when the Civil War came. One of the things he liked about war was freedom from shaving. He started to let his beard grow; thereafter to the end of his life only checked it from time to time. Hayes...
...Taft. Finally President Taft found a plum to tempt "the man from Cleveland." Would he accept the U. S. Ambassadorship to France? Mr. Herrick would?but for a strange, sound reason?at that time, 1912, his hobby was industrial credits, and he deemed the methods of the Credit Fonder of France the most advanced and worthy of study...
Lancelot is speaking of his only begotten son, a natural one who was more or less forced upon him by the first Elaine. There was never a fonder father nor prouder, nor ever one more vexed by his offspring's priggishness. For when Galahad left Camelot to seek (as legend soon had it) "the holiest thing in the world," and hence the Grail, it was not so much the quest that lured him as the necessity for a quest that drove him. He had just learned of his irregular birth and, to cap that, of his father...