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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...subject as my folks have lived in the South since the year one, and I consider myself just as "genuine'' a Southerner as any of the "professionals" that live in New York, Texas or elsewhere. My father fought the Yankees for four years and I was nearly grown before I knew that "Damyankee" was two words. Moreover, I am somewhat unreconstructed as yet; I don't believe that Abraham Lincoln was the greatest man in the world and I believe in state rights; in fact I have an idea that I feel about Lincoln and the things...
Miss Rambeau plays the toast of Budapest several years after she has grown cold. She is married to a prosperous farmer when the call comes to return for just one evening to the old life. Diamonds and champagne and gypsy music stifle the stolid virtues of the prosperous granary. The trip is, however, accomplished without immoderate-moral mishap, and her only difficulty is in explaining to her husband the next morning the presence of two gay dogs who have brought the cafe band to play under her rural windows as the sun comes...
...spirit of true science was with these politico-sportsman-adventurers. venturers. On first penetrating the Pamirs, they found the Ovis poli looking rather seedy, his winter coat not yet grown. They held their fire, descended the crags, and went over into the Thian Shan mountains for the ibex, Thian Shan sheep, bear, roe, goitered gazelle and a variety of birds and small mammals. Their ornithologist and curator, George K. Cherrie, set off for civilization via the Caspian Sea with these politico sportsman ad-to the Pamirs put the Roosevelts to finish their work...
HALF-TOLD TALES-Henry van Dyke-Scribners ($1.50). If any man must moralize, let him be full of years and honor, and of a wit quick to sharpen points grown dull through lack of dispute. Dr. van Dyke surely qualifies under all three headings. He abjures Envy...
...graduation. Many years ago a comprehensive study of our educational methods was made by a committee of the Faculty, and out of its report came the present scheme of concentration and distribution, replacing the old elective system. Indirectly, also, the plan of general examinations and the tutorial system have grown out of this study. So the Faculty has done its share in reorganizing the curriculum during the past decade. Now let the undergraduates tell us what they think of the outcome and make some constructive suggestions for a further him improvement, as we hope they...