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Miss Bentley has obviously undertaken a discouraging task. For if her book is to remain, properly speaking, a novel, her characters must secure, per se, the interest and affection of the reader. They must not, as in so many works of this type, become submerged either in her sympathy for the oppressed, or by the difficulty of finding something interesting, something new for each succeeding generation...
Long years ago he strummed a reverent guitar while hymns were sweetly sung by "The Little Flower" of Lisieux. famed Thérèse Martin who died in 1897. Later M. Chéron was six times Mayor of Lisieux in Normandy, zealously promoted the I. S. L. F. (International Society of the Little Flower). In 1925 the Society and M. Chéron knew boundless joy when Thérèse of Lisieux was officially canonized in Rome as St. Thérèse of the Infant Jesus...
...still and perennially the bad boy of British politics. Bubbling with super-adolescent energy and enthusiasms, hyper-adolescent ideas, unlike the typical Britisher he cannot refrain from sounding off on any subject that catches his briskly roving eye. Always refreshing (if you like enthusiasm per se), often more humorous than he intends, he apologizes for this collection of outbursts by saying that in an old world one must still amuse oneself like a child. Every Englishman is familiar with cartoons of Winston Churchill picturing his bulging forehead crowned by a tiny hat. He explains that this is a cartoonist...
...find, he stimulates an interest in the sport. The problem in the past was to understand why many boys reported for our intramural teams only to remain a few days and then drop out. We are now more than ever convinced that the spirit, guidance and teaching through properly se- lected coaches point to the right road of success for all intramural athletics...
...somewhat troubled financially. This drop in enrollment, representing a loss of about $1000 per man, would naturally be felt by any institution, and as is to be expected, college budgets are now limited in an unfortunate manner. The chief disadvantage, however, is not the loss of money per se, for the colleges did well with the present amount four years ago, but rather that, like individuals, the colleges find difficulty in living cheaply after having been attuned to an inflated scale...