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From all indications, students at Harvard are this year reaching a new high in seriousness. Three weeks have come and gone since the Midyear Examinations were ended, and the Cantabs, whether young or old, Yardlings or Seniors, continue in their staid ways, shunning riots and publicity and silently retiring to their books...
Other Murray Hill churches, watching staid brownstone mansions give way to office buildings and apartment houses, have moved or merged. But eloquent, liberal, Georgia-born Dr. John Gass decided Incarnation should reincarnate instead, submitted his own resignation as rector to facilitate the change...
...morning to establish a record of 367 days in session, recessed for 15 minutes, then flowed augustly on. As Garner, stammering occasionally and looking lonely and uncomfortable in his striped trousers and cutaway coat, put the Senate through its routine opening paces, the atmosphere was staid and grave. Senators elected and re-elected in November filed up to the rostrum in groups of four to be sworn in, each escorted by his State colleague. Only Hiram Johnson preferred to walk alone...
...House, as usual, was not so staid: it resembled a street scene more than a legislative body. In a constant babble-bedlam, members took the oath and went through the routine of organizing. On one side of the centre aisle sat 162 Republicans, two less than last year; on the other, 268 Democrats. Only time there was silence was when Texas' Sam Rayburn, elected Speaker by virtue of the Democratic majority, rose to speak. Rayburn declared...
...America is now wholly given over to a d-d mob of scribbling women," growled staid Nathaniel Hawthorne some years before the Civil War. Many of the novels which they produced, says Bowdoin Professor Herbert Ross Brown, "deserve to appear on any list of the world's worst fiction." Yet he feels that these novels of "handkerchiefly" feeling deserve his 400-page study as clues to the early literary aspirations of the U. S., which have something of the charm of Currier & Ives prints...