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...star of the Boston "Water Follies" did not appear to be at all reluctant to resurrect the subject of her dismissal from the 1936 Olympic team. "I had a whole month over there to train for my event, and I never intended to train on the boat." She asserted Olympic athletes ought to be old enough to be allowed to do what they see fit, then added, somewhat paradoxically, that the bar in the athletes' quarters should have been closed...
...Hutchins aims to resurrect the American university from the depths of its degradation and confusion. He points out that the objective of education should be to prepare the student for intelligent action. With this as his central theme he clarifies the proper function of a university in the scheme of a man's whole education. A university is equipped only to pursue the fundamental truths and no more--to attempt anything else is to cripple its prime purpose. Taking wisdom as the result of both intellectual training and experience, Dr. Hutchins insists, contrary to the existing curricula of most colleges...
...from their grasp by a troop of mercenary soldiers. In the fight which ensues, the comic spirit vanishes, and the bucaneers receive the cold steel for their delicacy. A trifle more humor might also be inserted with profit in the scene during which Miss MacDonald and Mr. Eddy tenderly resurrect the piece de resistance of the evening, "Ah, Sweet Mystery of Life...
While holding forth to one Bonzo, a critic, he had the happy idea for his book. "And I said to myself: If I were allowed to write one more novel only, what would I say, what would I put into it? I would resurrect my life, make it live, before my existence comes to an end on this strange and wayward star, resurrect my life while I am dying." Expanding on this theme as the ball proceeds around him, he relates to Bonzo what Resurrection...
...Thornwell Jacobs, an ambitious young Princeton Theological Seminary graduate who had been a Presbyterian minister for a while, went to Atlanta, determined to resurrect Oglethorpe there. He gave some of his own money to start, talked a quarter million dollars out of civic-proud Atlantans, made 101 trips through the South to raise another quarter million. On the cornerstone of New Oglethorpe's first building, laid in 1915, was engraved the pious motto Manu Dei Resurrexit (By the Hand of God She Has Risen from the Dead...