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...could be ascertained, the little book of sonnets has caused little excitement among the professors who are attacked therein, or among undergraduates. Books of this sort, satirising Harvard and Harvard professors, have appeared almost every year for several generations, and a good sized library could be collected from those among them which have been published during the past 50 years. Among the more famous on the list are "The New Swiss Family Robinson," published 50 years ago by owen Wister '82, and "Alice's Adventures in Cambridge," by Richard C. Evarts '13: The most recent book of this sort...
...soul of love, for more than 40 years Le Baron Briggs has walked among us and wist not that his face shone. . . ."It was the gentle Josiah Royce, who once said musingly: 'I should like some time to feel as good as Briggs really is, "and therein he voiced the sentiment of all men who have come to know Briggs. And what a host they are." Harvard men, here and there, read Mr. Everett's lament in the press, read also the statement of Dean Briggs-"I have been teaching long enough." Pursing their lips, they declared that...
Last spring, Congress passed a bill to increase the pay of postal employes. It was to have cost in the neighborhood of $68,000,000 a year. Last June, just before Congress adjourned, President Coolidge vetoed the bill on the grounds that no provision was made therein for raising the revenue to pay the increased cost. All summer the veto lay on the desks of the President pro tem of the Senate and the Speaker of the House...
...urns were erected in Rhode Island, no black shells were dropped therein, but nonetheless 21 of her citizens went forth, last June, into exile, saying they feared for their lives. Last week, the exiles returned, their Odyssey completed, though one had visited Erebus never to return, and another tarried with the Lottophagi-in Worcester, Mass...
...TIME, Dec. 29). I do not read trash. Comic-strips to me are senseless. I do not chew gum. But of crosswords-I do spend considerable time fitting in the interlocking words on occasion. Others, I think, may feel as I do about your classification. Crossword puzzles and indulgence therein have met no end of favor in a variety of circles. They are worthy of better bedfellows than literary trash, comic-strips, chewing...