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...salvers. Every guest stood trembling in the corridor outside the locked door, listening to the thud and rowdydow of fists, waiting for the best man to unlock the door and step out. Would the boy be too much for the curmudgeon? Or would the canniness of the old man prevail to wrest the championship of the O'Brien family from the youth? Suddenly, silence fell in the locked room; the guests gasped; the door opened. "Better go in and sew him up, Doc," said Philadelphia Jack. The real name of the two O'Briens is Hagen...
...another thing, however, to say that democratic government can exist only in countries where literacy is general. The success of the republics of antiquity with their large slave populations obviously precludes such a conclusion. Yet it does definitely appear that literacy must prevail among the franchised if popular government is to remain effective. The giving of political privilege to the educationally and hence politically incompetent has made a farce of Democracy in Italy, Spain, and Russia, and all but destroyed it in those countries. The need for good government in Democratic nations is thus a sanction for universal education...
Find Daddy. A frantic farce, about a baby that nobody wanted but everybody claimed, lasted just one week. It was perhaps the loudest performance this year and certainly the most athletic. Noise and perspiration, however, could not prevail. There was, nevertheless, one glowing line. The paternity of the housemaid's baby had just been fastened upon two married and apparently blameless males. "And to think," muttered the horrified heroine, "that both of them are Harvard...
...foreign students in the summer. Certainly there is an ever increasing number of American students in Paris every summer so one needn't be afraid of the stories that are told about high prices. As more students are exchanged between the American and French universities, so better feeling will prevail between the two countries. You know even though the French often try to overcharge Americans they usually prefer them to English. You Americans are so likely to be cordial and friendly, the English are sometimes a little stiff...
...fellows, and direct learning from qualified preceptors. In short, American colleges and universities, many of which have recently taken steps similar to that now ordered at Harvard in relaxing the rigidity of classroom requirements, seem in general to be moving more and more toward the principles and concepts which prevail in the age-old universities of Great Britain and of the European Continent. --Boston Transcript...