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...proponents of the higher criticism some sort of answer can be given, verging, indeed, upon that oddity of entities, truth. These weary, worried participants in the Memorial Hall Grand Guignol have at least the satisfaction of knowing that they have learned how intelligently and adequately to read, how to orient facts, how to present those facts. And, since there are facts and facts, a truism appreciated by the departments, they have discovered that no evil can befall him who chooses among them in preparing and answering his divisional examinations. Hence, this catharsis from the pity and fear inspired by divisionals...
...Court, unmoved, proceeded with the taking of testimony tending to prove that Tito Zaniboni had seven accomplices, one of them Gen eral Luigi Capello, and all subsidized by the Grand Orient Lodge of Italian Freemasonry, which Il Duce regards as the most pernicious force opposing Fascismo...
...which have appeared this winter are "The Theatre of George Jean Nathan" by Isaaac Goldberg '10, "Why Call it Anything?" by R.C. Benchley '12, and "Lord of Himself", a novel by Percy Marks, A.M. '14. J.R. Dos Jassos '16 has also contributed to the number of novels with his "Orient Express...
...will make the convention comparatively small in size, and thereby make it possible for men from the various countries to become well acquinted with one another. It is by this means that it is hoped it will be possible to better mutually, relations between the United States and the Orient...
...this were the whole story, the Golden Day could not have existed at all. But the new nation had its hour of glory. It occurred in that brief moment, when there was a nice balance between farm and factory, when maritime contact with the Orient and the Mediterranean was widening the native horizon, when--to quote the author--"the inherited mediaeval civilization of New England dried up, leaving behind a sweet, acrid aroma ... when in the act of passing away, the Puritan begot the transcendentalist." Emerson, Thorean, and Whitman rediscovered the treasure house of the past and envisioned...