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American Literature, writes this very modern Englishman, like the Russian has come to a real verge. "The furthest frenzies of the French modernism or futurism have not reached the pitch of extreme consciousness that Poe, Melville, Hawthorne, Whitman reached." These Americans "refuse everything explicit and always put up a sort of double meaning. They revel in subterfuge. They prefer their truth safely swaddled in an ark of bulrushes, and deposited among the reeds until some friendly Egyptian princess comes to rescue the babe." Needless to say, Mr. Lawrence will play the kind-hearted daughter of Pharach to rescue the infant...
...daily circulation, nearly three times greater than any American newspaper) is the most widely read journal in France. It is printed in 15 separate editions. The first edition comes off the press at 5.30 a. m. of the day before and is shot to the provinces furthest North. The last edition leaves the machines at 6 a. m. for the grand boulevards...
Sudden illness brought to a halt the happy and almost triumphant return of the President from Alaska. Hardly more than a week earlier excessive fatigue had forced Mrs. Harding to take to her bed at Fairbanks, the furthest point of the Presidential journey. Easy stages on the return trip and thorough rest had restored Mrs. Harding, in part at least, when the President's illness came...
Nevertheless, the value of keeping the alumni in close touch with the academic life of a university is self-evident and any move in that direction is useful in making possible an indefinite period of study for graduates. University extension courses.--developed to their furthest extent in this country by the University of California,--go far towards solving the problem, but they imply giving up more time than the average graduate has to spend...
...second dog watch, when the sleep of oblivion is beginning to creep over the rural districts and, by tradition, the Freshman Dormitories, and when the subway-to-Park is just beginning to awake, the sparse but never sad remnants of 1917 will gather from Hollis, from Holworthy, and the furthest confines of West Newton for that annual festival wherein Seniors have attempted since immemorial years to forget, if such a thing were possible, that they are wise...