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...would be silly to bring into the question of honoring Hans Wagner the argument about who caused the war. However the conflict began. It must be recognized as a terrible mistake, lest we seem unappreciative of the enormous human sacrifice it required. War as an institution on one want to commemorate; memorials are raised in honor to the courage and devotion to duty that characterized our war heroes. No single army had a monopoly of these Virtues. Cornell Daily...
...Lest you forget I tell the story: March 15, 1919, a country school near Center, N. Dak. was also dismissed early because of a blizzard. Hazel Miner, schoolgirl, started home with her two little brothers, in a buggy. It also was upset. Useless to attempt walking, she prepared shelter under the upset buggy, wrapped the two brothers in the blankets. Finally in the dead of night spread her overcoat and her- self over them. When rescued next afternoon, two healthy little boys were found; over them the sister. They did not know she was frozen. PETER D. HOWARD...
...Yale's most justly applauded and admired teachers has pointed out with consummate tact and understanding that from the beginning of a lecture the instructor is under a nervous apprehension lest he may not receive the usual and expected applause. In consequence of this slight, he either becomes more distracted and less coherent in anticipation of further impending "disgrace," or else he "plays up" to the crowd, giving them entertainment, but not necessarily scholarly arguments on the subject in hand...
...last minute, suspense had been terrific lest Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Pope Pius XI should forbid Luigi Cardinal Lavitriano, Archbishop of Palermo, to officiate. Well the Holy Father knew that at this wedding there would be present those two accursed agitators for the Royalist cause in France, Editor Leon Daudet of L'Action Française and his doughty fellow editor, Charles Maurras. If they were present as guests, declared the Supreme Pontiff in his final ultimatum to Monseigneur le Due de Guise, then no Cardinal could possibly officiate...
Like oldtime court jesters, newspaper colyumists are privileged-nay, obliged- to play horse with the serious news of the day. But just as the jester was in danger of having his head lopped off if his boldness should outrun his wit, so must the colyumist watch carefully lest he shock the Average Reader's sensibilities. Readers of Colyumist Harry Irving Phillips (''The Sun Dial") in the New York Sun one day last week wondered whether he had gone...