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...That sleepless servant of the University, Mr. Frederick Meade, whose name is attached to all the miscellanea one receives at the beginning of the year relative to term bills and dining halls, has made a step of revolutionary significance in his campaign for More Mouths at Mem. By throwing open the gates of Harvard's gastronomic Elysium to the hoi polloi in petticoats--with the proviso, of course, that they find themselves suitable escorts--Mr. Meade has killed several birds with one stone; in fact, his name should be struck at once from the visiting list of the Audubon Society...
...beautiful 20,000-acre estate at Oels near Breslau in Silesia, where he was eagerly awaited by leading citizens dressed in Prince Albert coats and high hat, not to mention a host of foreign press correspondents and motion picture men. Meanwhile the Allied Powers, having spent sleepless nights on account of the rumors of the impending return of the ex-Crown Prince to his Fatherland, were thrown into a state of nervous prostration by the rumor that the ex-Kaiser had received his passports and was on the point of leaving his Doorn home, with the intention of restoring...
...that old world before the war, one such event would have cost us sleepless nights. The war, with all its suffering and atrocities, has been an anesthetic. We have become too accustomed to the cries of the oppressed to have them vibrate painfully upon our nerves and conscience. The enthusiasm produced in the fever of the war days has given place to the peril of waning idealism. Nothing could be more dangerous, if these are the facts, than to close our minds and hearts, and to drift on. I am not a prophet of pessimism, but I am aware...
...circulation, the less probable will be Germany's success in paying the reparations. Accordingly, in the minds of Stinnes and his brother junkers, the lower the mark, the better for us, ta-ta-ta. Though the value of the mark is infinitesimally insignificant, it is no cause of sleepless nights to the German war profiteers. Industry can go on as well as ever, though the German poor suffer considerable inconvenience and the French continue in their present state of non-plus. There is no financial loss to Germany, which makes the junkers happy, and no gain to France, which makes...
...Smith's lively and been comment "Happiness," "The Thunderbolt," and "A Sleepless Night," Plays now running in Boston, ends a number to which it is a pleasure to accord high praise...