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...Significance. For its acute penetration of the French and English tempers, its rich, complete personalities, its sure, translucent substantiation of subtle motives, its warm humanity, its rare good taste and rarer good humor, this is as fine a book as one might ask for. The dignity of mind and manner are those of a gentlewoman; the cool, easy prose and the bookmanship are those of a gentlewoman of letters...
...native state is well known. It now includes a great admiration for Miss Cleghorn, although many of her opinions are far from my own. Here is a liberal, almost a radical mind, finely tempered by New England sanity and balance. It is a combination, rare in literature, perhaps rarer still in teaching. Her passion for humanity, tinged with mysticism, makes her verse memorable, and I imagine that as her work as a teacher develops, she will add not a few disciples to her already large list of friends...
Frank W. Mondell: "Charles Michelson*, Washington correspondent of The New York World, referred to me as ' former Senator Frank Mondell.' I have never been a Senator, but for 26 years I was Congressman from Wyoming - a rarer thing, for Wyoming has two Senators but only one Congressman...
Forty years ago, several Harvard graduates started "Life" with the quotation that man "hath but a short time to live and is full of misery"--and they set out to dissipate as much misery as possible. "Time" will solve a problem peculiarly modern, when spare moments are rarer than ever. It will give pre-digested news in a form readily available on the subway or motor bus, where the forty-page daily accomplishes little besides ratting and knocking off one's neighbor...
...fact that he had been in college for four years without ever having seen a football game-a "pride in ignorance" plainly inappropriate, and fortunately not prevalent among men who are interested in a "college education". "But certainly these who have never seen a football game are rarer than those who have never been to Appleton, and are regarded as more "queer...