Word: instead
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Joyously the Latin Quarter students, who make it a prankish point to always use fiacres instead of taxis, assembled 39 of their favorite and seediest cab drivers at the Porte de Pantin, to greet jovial Red Beard Hartmann when he drove in last week. For the rest, Tout Paris is ever ready to join in good-humored shouts at a spectacle so nice as a parade of 40 old men and 40 old nags up the Champs Elysees and on to the Eiffel Tower...
...jokes and possessed with a dreary talent for unnecessary heroics. Herein he makes his too-customary stage appearance. Tongue-tied and blushing, he sees the daughter of a millionaire shipowner and goes infatuate. Then no longer is he a modest nonentity, almost incapable of thought or speech. Awkwardly demoniac instead, he kidnaps the girl of his lamentable dreams while she is in the act of marrying a rogue, takes her away upon a yacht, causes her fiance to appear in his true colors and marries her with affectionate alacrity in the last...
...gone too far, objected Dr. Jabez N. Jackson (Kansas City), president of the association in his address to the house of delegates. The money and time investment of the modern physician equip him to give competent service to the public; the public should realize the debt and pay it, instead of crowding into clinks...
...thinking they might have to drop the anchor quickly in the night they brought it aft, with the rope fast, and lashed it on the quarter by the cock-pit. When morning came, and they could see somewhat through the haze, they found themselves off Minot's Ledge instead of Marblehead. The anchor on the quarter had caused a deviation of the compass in the cock-pit; a result they had not foreseen. Of course no moral was involved in this case, but it may illustrate what I mean. The compass is to the mariner what conscience...
...problem is not even as simple as club versus non-club. There is the hierarchy of established clubs to be considered. Leaving the feeding problem aside, it is a question whether smaller, not larger, sections might not offer a solution. If 50 percent instead of 25 percent were left out of clubs the clubs would not be such an integral part of Princeton life. The unclubbable element effectually stops a solution in the other direction...