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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Thee" or "The Red, White and Blue ?" They were not. They accompanied the waving of the Stars and Stripes with singing in chorus "The Sidewalks of New York." It can hardly be conceded that such doggerel is a national patriotic air, yet these children are indirectly being taught to so consider it. In years to come their influence will be felt in all quarters of the country whence they migrate. . . . JAMES W. PIERCE...
...Author. In 1876 Master Stephen Butler Leacock, aged seven, of Swanmoor, Hants, England, decided to accompany his parents to a farm in Ontario. He attended Canadian colleges and taught in one of them until 1899, when he sickened of "the most dreary, the most thankless, and the worst paid profession in the world." He pursued economics and political science in Chicago, taking his Ph. D. in 1903. McGill University has employed him ever since. You sometimes see him in this country-a stocky, gruff, mop-headed little figure sitting in the quiet corner of a hotel dining room, or booming...
George Santayana (1863-), who, though born in Spain and now living in England, long studied and taught at Harvard. He has been called an "immaculate materialist." He accepts universal mechanism as he accepts his friends' names, but finds it capable of such infinite variation, color, beauty, that it satisfies his poet's soul, just as the Catholic Church moves him esthetically without for an instant compelling his belief. He expresses the vestiges of Classicism in the U. S., modernizing Aristotle...
...that 20 years ago I was a very sick man and I went to the best orthodox authorities, and except for such matters as surgery and dentistry, they did me no good whatever, and they charged me many thousands of dollars. Bernard McFadden taught me how to keep well and charged me nothing. So whenever I see "vicious" attacks upon him I rise to tell what I know...
...Butte the singing teachers taught him all they knew. Therefore the local Chamber of Commerce is financing his Manhattan studies. Hope was expressed: "The largest mining camp in the world is not to be outdone by Kansas City [a large meat packing centre and railway terminal] and Marion Talley [Metropolitan débutante; TIME, March 1]. ... It plans sending a real delegation when Mr. McLain makes his début [next winter...