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...affair was a daughter, also Alice, who started her pilgrimage through North Hysterica just as her mother's manuscript body was being cruelly contested by the book-collectors. Once in the Delighted States, by way of the stem of a drinking glass, Alice Jr. revolved with the Rotarians round a luncheon table, but when she refused to make a speech the Rotarian next to her feared the girl was moody: "That comes from being too subjunctive and makes the situation tense." Alice thereupon recited a poem for them. Suddenly her entire audience scuttled and scampered off to escape...
...become more and more the busy American city, as it has lost, conversely, the atmosphere of a quiet academic center. The boosters are in control, and their little signboard at the Anderson Bridge represents the attitude of the city: bold capitals proclaim industrial growth, manufacturing leadership, Kiwanis and Rotarian meetings; and, in almost shame-faced letters below, Cambridge mentions its educational institutions. The calm that surrounded the nineteenth century giants of Cambridge is gone; and the student of the present must piece out an education as best he can amid the clang of street cars and the whirr of machines...
...Rotarians, who voyaged on an excursion to Ostend, Belgium, for the Rotary International convention (TIME, June 6), listened with rapt attention to King Albert of Belgium last week. His Majesty, himself a Rotarian, praised the U. S. delegates "whose crossing of the Atlantic-the Atlantic which your fellow countryman, Captain Lindbergh, crossed alone in some 30 hours-is indeed an important event. It proves the strength of Rotarian feeling and co-operative spirit...
...representatives of that interesting class in the mass. ... It will be an education and a surprise for the Continentals to learn of the extraordinary degree to which we have carried the combination of business with pleasure, or at least business with luncheon." German businessmen have asked Rotarian President Sapp to remain in Europe for a time to get German rotary clubs well organized...
...deriders of Rotary will learn better very soon now. As Rotarian Gardner Mack wrote only this month in the Rotarian, Rotary has "turned the corner." From a little lunch group brought together by a lonely Chicago lawyer, it has become a huge organization "covering 40-odd separate nations and claiming approximately 130,000 members!" It is outgrowing what Rotarian William Allen White calls its "boy complex," its "garish ex-ternals," its "supersentimentalism and noisy infanticism." It is not unembarrassed by members who say Jesus was the original Rotarian and even bridles when admirers say "there must have been something divine...