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...SILENT HOUSE-A Chinaman takes his friends for a slay-ride in London (TIME...
...passing of the day when English A, along with German A and History 1, was a Freshman nightmare requires no parting tears. Never a particularly difficult course it managed to bore to extinction those whom it did not slay by its complex for introductory technicalities in English composition. Now it has been subdivided until almost every Freshman can discover something which especially interests him; under Professor Perry's direction it has become more spirited without ceasing to be practical. If the present plan is satisfactory and if men admitted to the College under the Highest Seventh Rule...
...their mother. Electra. Actress Margaret Anglin lately received a gold medal for having "kept her work characteristically pure and noble in nature" (TIME, April 4). Last week she played the part of a Greek woman, Electra who, to avenge her father's death, spurs her brother on to slay their adulterous, murderous mother, Clytemnestra. Simultaneously, hard by Manhattan, a real U. S. adultress and her paramour were on trial for their lives for having prosecuted a design very similar to Clytemnestra's by methods scarely more gruesome than those set forth in the play. The U. S. man and woman...
...presidential desk was placed a yellow glass-covered urn. Within, like cubes of sugar, lay some salts presented to the President by a scientist. Should a bad odor invade the presidential office, the top of the urn can be removed. The discreet salts slay germs, sweeten air. ¶ Last week the President- Urged public and railroads alike to exercise greater caution at grade crossings...
...flat tire. The Boy, sore smitten, circles the auto, displaying a repertoire of bicyclical virtuosity rivaled only by his vaulting hopes. Amused, the lady kisses her seraph-faced admirer, whose innocence in the throes of the cosmic "urge is droll to behold. Thus compromised, the trousered one needs must slay his contemporaneous sweetheart who lives next door, in order to be free to follow the grand passion inspired by the lady of the Rolls-Royce. In plenty of time and after many an antic he discovers that the Rolls-Royce lady is unworthy and returns peacefully to the girl next...