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...double walls of Jericho fell as related, probably as the result of an earthquake which may also have caused the damming of the River Jordan described in Psalm 114: The sea saw it and fled: Jordan was driven back. The mountains skipped like rams, and the little hills like lambs. Not a scrap of metal was found in Jericho, thus bolstering the statement in Joshua: And they burnt the city with fire, and all that was therein: only the silver, and the gold, and the vessels of brass and of iron, they put into the treasury of the house...
Reason for the Legislature's action was a letter published in the Courier-Journal last fortnight, signed by "One Who Believes in Honest Government, a, member of the House of Representatives." Headlined as a "Psalm of Politics" this communication roundly flayed the legislators who since its publication had been vainly trying to identify its author (TIME, March 19). The resolution asking for Ambassador Bingham's recall was only one of the tricks the House had used to pry out of the Courier-Journal a name which that paper felt honor bound to withhold...
...Gentlemen: You have undertaken to cheat me. I will not site you, for law takes too long. I "will ruin you. Sincerely yours, Cornelius Vanderbilt. On his deathbed he refused the bottle of champagne prescribed by the doctor, stingily demanded, ''Won't sody-water do instead?" Psalm-singing Daniel Drew, credited with inventing "watered stock" (cattle made artificially thirsty, then, to increase their weight, given all the water they could drink just before being sold), had other tricks up his sleeve. One of them: "Old Daniel pulled out his proverbial red bandanna handkerchief to mop his brow...
This number will contain four poems: "Psalm" and "For Dead Poets" by Whitney G. Case '36, "A Virgin and the Ganymedes," by J. LeB. Boyle '35, and "In the End is Our Beginning" by James Loughlin...
...exercises close with the singing of the seventy-eighth psalm, led by the University Choir...