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...detailed context of Mr. Hanford's article there is little to be said. If a maxim is to be offered it is--"Peruse--and contemplate thereon." One learns that, "examination papers will have to be prepared and graded with especial care"; that regular tutorial reading in addition to course reading will continue during the Reading Period--a fact not plainly understood heretofore; that the Library is making plans so as to be able to meet the increasing demands on its shelves; that there will be no "mechanical check on attendance"--possibly the most practical evidence of the University's sincere...
Believers in the maxim, "Blood will tell," made much of this story of John C. Lodge, whose grandnephew, as all Detroit knows, is Charles Augustus Lindbergh...
Cynics shied at Personality; saw in it a highly polished variation of the copy book maxim morality through which every U. S. boy is assured he can become President. Said one: "Just like Success and the American Magazine-only more...
...murderess, the Countess was sentenced to life imprisonment. One year later she was released, and in the succeeding year (1918) she was elected a member of the British Parliament. At that time she launched and tirelessly repeated her maxim concerning Mr. Lloyd George (see above), whom she blamed for his opposition to the project of creating Ireland a Republic...
After the establishment of the Irish Free State (1922), Countess Markievicz took up another maxim: "The Irish Free State is not Irish, is not Free, and is not a State." Small ingenuity is needed to support this very logical thesis, and the Countess gave to it all her great energies, demanding that a true "Irish Republic" be established, "instead of our present mongrel specimen of a 'Dominion...