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...Goodnight, Dear...
...Goodnight, Goodnight...
...iSgo's. For eight years she had been driven to and from the theatre in a hansom cab operated by a hackman known as "Red." One night, during a snowstorm, Red's cab was late coming for her. When it did appear she got in, was taken home, shouted goodnight and ran for her door. An hour later Red's employer told her that the driver had died w:hile she was in the theatre; unguided, the horse had found the way home. Her friends believe that the most accurate description of Critic Leslie was written by Ben Hecht, long...
Emily's father was Amherst's leading citizen. A puritanical lawyer who "never played," never kissed his children goodnight, never gave them any sign of affection, would leave the table if Emily talked too much or too well, he once startled Amherst by ringing the firebell because he wanted the citizenry to observe a beautiful sunset. Emily's brother left home but Emily and her sister Lavinia were life-long sacrifices on the altar of filial piety. For years Emily never went outside the garden gate, but all the time she wrote poems secretly, lived intensely...
...controversy between Dean Goodnight and William Ellery Leonard at Wisconsin is a fight that comes perilously close to the foundations of American higher education and it is also a fight that will have its echoes and reverberations in all American colleges for some months to come. The controversy as it started was over the question of "How much power and jurisdiction has a dean of men (or of women) over the students' most intimate personal affairs?" And this of course carried with it the implication: "How much power do the deans actually need under the American system of education...