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However, if such a thing may be suggested, the blot on the escutcheon of all Harvard men is due only in part to the causes suggested in the young ladies' lament. Vassar weekends may be too strenuous, but it seems illogical that mere walking should hold any terrors for those inured to the isolation of Cambridge classrooms...
...whether the House of Morgan was about to issue a counterblast against Governor Roosevelt or had decided to backtrack from the blast of adverse publicity. Neither appeared to be the case. They were received in a most easy manner by Morgan Partners Thomas W. Lamont and Harold Stanley. Mr. Lament, always popular with newsmen, issued the statement...
Piobaireachd. Pipers had to play the warlike Cumha-Mhican-Toisich (Mackintosh's Lament). They were judged on their interpretation and feeling, technical facility and smart appearance. First prize: $75 and a gold medal for the best Piobaireachd piper in Canada. Winner: Norman McPherson of Hamilton...
...true Prophet. Nearby is the coffin of Mohammed, adorned with 17 golden nails of which the written word says when they fall out all things will come to an end. Of the many relics sanctified to Jews, holiest is the Wailing Wall. For generations they have gone there to lament ". . . for the Temple that is destroyed . . . for our Majesty that is departed ... for our Great Men who lie dead...
Count Hermann Alexander Keyserling, German philosopher-critic, said in the current issue of the Atlantic Monthly: ''Chicago is an amazing thing. It is the one place in the United States where one is actually aware of the presence of ungenerosity, ill-will and malice." Commented Mrs. Robert Patterson Lament, wife of the Secretary of Commerce, who entertained Count Keyserling last year in Chicago: "If he disliked Chicago . . . I think the fault must have been with him." Commented another Chicago Keyserling hostess: "I rather think he wrote what he wrote ... to attract attention...