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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cleopatra's Private Diary" had preceded Erskine's "The Private Life of Helen of Troy" and his "Galahad" it might have at least merited such adjectives as original, novel, and daring. Inasmuch as Henry Thomas presents to a satiated public this typically twentieth century literary cocktail in the very center of the storm of applause still acclaiming the Erskine novels, he has committed nothing than une gaucherie. Before the reader has sipped at "Cleopatra's Diary" he has recalled the merits and defects of "Galahad" and adopted a standard of critical comparison which the latest exploit of ancient and medieval...
Thus one of the least discussed (in U. S. history textbooks) issues of the War of 1812 was the movement (advocated by Henry Clay and other U. S. fire-eaters) for the annexation of Canada. During the war, however, the U. S. Canadian operations were a dismal failure, relieved chiefly by Perry's famed "We have met the enemy and they are ours" victory on Lake Erie...
Meanwhile, however, heavy rains in the central and northern Mississippi valley threatened, if not a renewal of flood conditions, at least a considerable lengthening of the time estimated for the receding of the waters...
...least partially to the youth of the Western colleges, there exists the large-headed, bull-mouthed, cubbish young Western undergraduate whom one does not find in the better sort of Eastern school, such as Williams. Here the restricted college roll produces a more mature student who has a certain amount of intellectual interest, and is not absorbed completely by athletics and girls, as is his Western brother...
There ought to be not a law but a society for the protection of those who are anxious to dispose of their books at prices at least not rediculous. As it is the bookstore manager is the king in the springtime, however obliging he may be at the beginning of the next term. No union of determined undergraduates have formed in opposition to his tyranny and therefore he rules supreme. Decidedly a profiteer, he makes his hay while the sun shines, realizing that the antum months are sufficiently distant to make the rebellious ones forget their wounds...