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...ever come to the University, they too would doubtless receive their deserts and march out, diploma in hand, in a glow of fame. The demands upon teachers, on the other hand, do to a certain extent exist; but the idea of making one or more degrees the summum bonum, sine quanon, be-all and end-all of secondary school instructors is not to be laid at the door of the colleges. If an M.A. is requisite for teachers in, Boston high schools, it is because the administrators of those schools have so ordained...
...from the Princetonian to set itself up as dramatic arbiter whose opinion is the sine qua non of theatrical criticism, but a four-to-one preference one way or another is certainly the essence of standardization. And when an aethetic concensus is in favor of the inartistic--or let us say, the hackneyed--deus ex machina as opposed to the more logical and, therefore from a dramatic standopint, the more artistic unhappy ending--it is time to do something beyond complimenting ourselves...
...Adjourned sine...
...Adjourned sine...
...Chair regards the results of the present legislative session as primarily due to the defective rules of the Senate. . . . This is the only great parliamentary body in the world where such a situation exists. . , . "The hour of 12 o'clock having arrived, the Senate stands in adjournment sine die." Who won the filibuster? Mr. Dawes, the spectator. He was the one whom the laymen cheered. As for the distant cousins-Mr. Reed of Pennsylvania left for a rest in Bermuda with the words: "The Reed investigating committee is dead. There may be strong, healthy men on the committee...