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...progress of a week's campaigning found the combatants seven days nearer to the election...
...instructors in music education believe that the primary purpose of any study of music, in public schools or elsewhere, is to get nearer to understanding and feeling what is excellent and noble and really joyous in music. They believe, also, that no person unfamiliar with or unappreciative of the best music, including folk songs and the choral works of such masters as Bach and Brahms, is capable of carrying out that purpose or even of understanding...
...point. The possibility of the election of Mr. Davis is far less than that of Senator La Follette. Furthermore, in the event that Senator LaFollette should not win, the election will almost certainly be thrown into the House or Senate, where both Senator LaFollette and Senator Wheeler would be nearer success than any of the other candidates...
...Haskell, who has been somewhat nearer the scene of action, believes that the time is ripe for a positive policy. Life in Russia, he thinks, is not life in Mars or life very much different from life in any other country, except for the lack of currency...
...termed in astronomical language, took place last week with a maximum excitement on the part of the public and a minimum excitement on the part of astronomers. These oppositions occur about every 26 months, but every 15 or 16 years there is an opposition when the two bodies ate nearer each other than usual, and about every hundred years or so there is an opposition at which the two planets are extremely near together-about 34,600,000 miles. This occasion belonged to the last group...