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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...clinked and gurgled mischievously. In all, 13 quarts of mellow liquor were confiscated. The Governor and his eight companions were arrested, appearing voluntarily at jail in the morning. Each furnished a $300 bond. No one seemed to know who owned the suitcase. "Plain Bill" offered to let the raiders search his person; said he was merely an invited guest who was enjoying a little fishing by day and poker by night...
Among professorial indictments of the modern college student that of Dr. J. Edgar Park, President of Wheaton College, is not the least severe. In a speech before the Radcliffe chapter o Phi Beta Kappa, Dr. Park declared that crowds whose search for knowledge is merely subordinate to a desire for pleasure, are debauching American institutions of learning. "Comparatively few students are at our American universities for the purpose of scholarship," Le says. And, he adds, efforts to instill a love of learning in, barren minds, are as casting pearls before swine...
From these figures anyone may see just where he stands in the scale of vocabulary and intelligence. If any individual is sufficiently interested to test his own verbose store. Let him search through an unabridged dictionary, as advised by Dr. Vizetelly, and find out As a preliminary to this task. Dr. Vizetelly, suggests a test of perseverance. Fill, he says, a tumbler full of dried peas, place it in one room, and carry the peas one by one to fill and empty glass in another room. If one is able to do this, he is qualified, to try the vocabulary...
...with the high-priced Amelita Galli-Curci; but often the Chicago operas more than equal the Metropolitan in vitality and freshness. Mr. Insull, being both quiet and reticent, undoubtedly neglected to tell Her Majesty that he is the Tsar of Chicago opera, that he dashes off to Europe in search of these artists, that he recently collected the second five-year guarantee of $500,000 a year from wealthy Chicagoans months before it was due, that he hopes some day to see a self-paying opera in his dream palace on the Chicago River...
...perhaps the hardest working member of the Supreme Court, going to his office at 7 a. m. and often continuing into the night. His theory is that a search for the truth, if carried far enough, will always obliterate any conflict of opinion. His words are few-almost epigrammatic: "Instead of amending the Constitution, I would amend men's economic and social ideas...