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...gentleman of 40, full-fleshed and well-garmented, wrote his cheque in London last week for ?5,000 ($24,300), passed it over to a firm of caterers, and received from them a contract to furnish him with two meals a day for the rest of his life but never to reveal his name, even after his death...
...schoolteachers of Oregon, in convention at Portland, sat back in their chairs full of warmth, enthusiasm and expectancy. They had been discussing their moral obligation to society. They had decided that it was incumbent upon them to furnish future citizens with "internal control" now that those declining agencies, the home and the church were no longer effective and now that society was abandoning "external control." The teachers of Oregon were feeling the full unction of their mission-and were now waiting to be addressed by that great champion of public education, the ousted president of the university of the great...
They should be conducted for the benefit of the students, by themselves and by the appropriate authorities of the university, not by others to furnish entertainment to alumni and the public...
...pleasant and innocuous, are the songs sold at the door. As for the cast, Patti Harrold, dainty and unstudied, makes a charming heroine; Robert Armstrong, obviously out of place in musical comedy, a not-so-good hero. George Meeker, Edward Allen, and Frank Beaston, as Tom, Dick, and Harry, furnish the bulk of the humor, which depends more on their own antics than the rather weak book. Mr. Beaston especially stands...
...must be the destruction of that superstructure of stadia, highly paid coaches, mythical intersectional championships, tremendous box office receipts and so on, which have made intercollegiate sport into spectacle, have caused it to be conducted, as Mr. Lowell points out, not for the benefit of the students, but to furnish entertainment to the alumni and the public. Here Mr. Lowell has not carried out his ideas to their logical conclusion. He makes no mention, for instance, of an athletic endowment which would eliminate the pressing need for the football spectacle to pay for the general physical development of the undergraduate...