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...youth in the saddle in the territory of New Mexico. Then he plunged into law and politics. Reward came. He was elected the first U. S. Senator from New Mexico. Senator Fall, weighing 180 pounds,* wearing a wide-brimmed hat of the southwest, was popular in a frontierish sort of way. Most important was his friendship with that unimpressive, loyal group of which Senator Harding was one. Mr. Fall's hopes grew big when Friend Harding was elected President-perhaps he would be appointed Secretary of State, perhaps merely Secretary of the Interior...
...most efficient arrangement for a University dining hall is a building with four wings branching out from a central intersection area--a sort of St. Andrew's cross design. Variations of the plan, novel as it sounds, have been effectively adopted by several colleges. Princeton, for instance, has a pentagonal eating hall...
...most important requirement for this sort of dining hall, in my opinion, is permission by the College to let patrons sign slips for their meals, as at present is the practice at the Harvard Union. The same rule, of course should apply to the cafeteria. If it were found necessary for students to eat at least 17 meals a week at their tables in the class dining halls in order to make these branches financially feasible. I am sure that an arbitrary regulation to this effect would not meet with any objection. A discount should be made on this number...
Romantic irony is in a word a combination of a sort of introspection with the idea of the infinite or striving for endlessness, to use the jargon of the German romanticists. That is to say, an ironist in the romantic sense not only looks down upon his ordinary ego from the height of his "transcendental ego", and stands aloof from it, but there is in him something which may even stand aloof from this aloofness and so ad infinitum...
Said the Governor of Maine: "I will." Governor John H. Trumbull of Connecticut had traveled to Boston to meet Governor Ralph Brewster of Maine and taken him by airplane to Hartford for the second New England Conference last week. These conferences were organized a year ago to seek some sort of co-operation between the strongly individualistic communities and industries of New England. Long ago this district yielded its literary and cultural prestige to Manhattan. But industrially, especially in shoes, textiles and knit goods, it held its predominance until shortly after the War. Since then it has not progressed...