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Clarence W. Barren, purveyor of financial information, head of The Wall Street Journal and other financial papers, published an article in The Boston Herald predicting that Coolidge would sweep the country by ten million votes. His reasons were twain...
...drug store has grown, so grows the press. First employed to propagate information, its functions have been successively enlarged. It becomes a gatherer of information, a purveyor of amusement, a persuader of public opinion. Is this only a beginning? Ever and anon a paper branches into some new activity, startling in its ambition. Last week Collier's, a weekly of this and that, decided to attempt an experiment in Government. It had a plan for municipal government. It not only explained and advocated its plan, it also offered to lend the active assistance of a number of its staff...
Then Stephen Leacock Esq. (not so much the purveyor of "Nonsense Novels" as the Professor of Political Economy), moved by the Ancient Dame's merry gesture, gave his "Canadian Ec.A." cuts for a month and thought audibly about "College Dormitories." To be sure, his tongue would persist almost suavely, in finding his cheek, and his left eye indulge its habitual wink, but for the greater part of two pages Professor Leacock voices irrefutable solemnities...
Fund Committees, hear! hear! We propose as the first incumbent of the Cozy Chair in the Department of Dormitories, Stephen Leacock Esq. (not so much the professor of Political Economy as the Purveyor of "Nonsense Novels...
...Advocate has never announced itself as the purveyor of "the best" literary work done in the University, nor does the current number give it any basis on which to make such a claim. Possibly its editors believe that what we need most is not a monthly selection of the most perfect undergraduate work; possibly they are more anxious to publish material reflecting the type of writing most undergraduates like to do and expressing the thoughts they like to think, and, very possibly, they believe this is the nearest possible approach to what seems to be the unattainable ideal...