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...Significance. With this aggressively commonplace plot and in a style painstakingly simple, Mr. Anderson attempts the well-nigh impossible. His object is to show, through John Webster's experience, the mystery and miracle of the commonplace seen with the vision of inspiration. John Webster's love gives the world new aspects. The fronts of houses seem to have fallen away, and he can see the lives of the people in them. Every episode, every object, takes on for him a fresh beauty. He tries to give some of this sudden light to his wife and daughter...
...football oligarchy of the East that ruled well nigh supreme some twenty years back has been crumbling for a long time, and still is crumbling. Here are these "Hawkeyes" from Iowa City coming into the classic football shades of New Haven and standing the "Pulldog" on his head. There have been others of these challengers from the out lands, and year by year they seem to grow a little stronger and more threatening. There was Centre and Chicago and Nebraska last year. This fall Kansas comes East, and the Army sends the "Jayhawk" back with defeat stenciled on his feathers...
...reception to the blanks distributed today by the Secretary and Treasurer. The Class Fund is always a difficult thing to organize; if only 25 per cent of the class agree to contribute, the task of keeping the unity of the class alive, already sufficiently difficult, will be rendered well-nigh impossible...
This is as it should be. Competitions have a unique place among the University's educational opportunities, but they should not be allowed to assume too large a position in the undergraduate life. At present it appears that the situation is well-nigh satisfactory...
...paper. If such methods are to be pursued consistently, particularly by a paper that stands in the public mind for the Good Government Association, those who believe that politicians can be gentlemen as well, will be forced to admit that civil politics in the United States is well nigh incurable...