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Meanwhile, through all this panic-y year, the students on the whole have remained sane and sober. Their level-headed composure has driven some of the professors into a veritable frenzy. They forget, these professors, that war is serious business for the young--that it wrecks their lives while the oldsters stay safely at home and continue uninterruptedly their careers. They forget also that the now generation have been disillusioned about war, while the old generation are still nursing the fantasies and fables in which they were reared years ago. But they are doing their best to break down...
This news gave British morale a boost -too much of a boost, in the opinion of some British leaders. The London Times printed a sober warning...
Most of them were portraits of people with strong, lined faces, gnarled hands, who dressed in prim, sober costumes. Some depicted demure-looking children. All of them were taken nearly a hundred years ago. The photographer who had made them had died in his native Scotland in 1870 without ever having seen a modern film or darkroom. But he had caught the dour, moody characters of his sitters with a Rembrandt-like vividness that no present-day camera artist has ever surpassed. His name: David Octavius Hill...
...grimmest problem is getting gags. Says he: "Good gagmen are rare, and even if you do manage to tie up with a topnotcher, you will find that too much effort must be spent in keeping him sober to make the collaboration a profitable...
...gathered from all over the U.S. for their annual convention. If they were no better looking than run-of-the-mine conventioneers, they were definitely better behaved. Although the hotels were so jammed that latecomers were happy to get berths on an old lake steamer, the sessions were sober and earnest. Even the over-candid medical sense of humor was curbed...