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...From 1907 to 1910 he was editor-in-chief of the Butterick publications (Delineator, Designer, New Idea, English Delineator). In 1907 he was also engaged in organizing a National Child Rescue Campaign. Among his novels are: Sister Carrie, The Genius, The Titan, Jennie Gerhardt. In 1919 he published Hey, Rub-a-Dub-Dub, a volume of essays...
...ordinary bookcase, the in habitants thereof may be subjected to inconceivable indignities. Imagine the reaction of a prim and high-minded Victorian romance forced to rub Covers with Jurgen. What would be the feelings of Speare and Fitz gerald, twin apostles of gin and kisses, separated by the staid blue covers of Mr. Gundelfinger's uproarious Ten Years at Yale...
...northern than the southern states, although this is not due to the race factor. Cancer is curable-if taken in time. Surgery and deep X-ray or radium treatment are so far the only proved remedies. Progress in the latter methods has recently been rapid. But the rub lies just in the fact that the malady is seldom discovered until it is too late when the lawless growth of the cancer cells has gotten a fatal hold on the healthy tissue...
...long sought privilege has finally become a prescribed requirement at Middlebury. And there's the rub. Because it is a requirement it is very likely to defeat its purpose. Much of the attractiveness of extra-curriculum activities comes from the fact that the student goes into them through natural inclination; he is his own compulsion. A man without a leaning towards any college activity would probably take his share of the newly prescribed college life much as a small boy takes his dose of castor oil. Perhaps, after all, this move at Middlebury is a feint, in strict accordance with...
...HAVEN, CONN., March 7.--The Yale Daily News is planning to send out tomorrow a questionnaire to all Yale students asking their opinion on American intervention in the Rub crisis...