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...President Emeritus of Dartmouth College; at Hanover, N. H., of heart disease. He received his sobriquet of "the great president" by bringing Dartmouth from the little "eleemosynary institution"- of John Marshall's day to the great college that it had become when Dr. Tucker resigned in 1909. Died. Thor, 2, able retriever of golfer's dub-shots; at Briarcliff Lodge golf course, Briarcliff Manor, N. Y. Dog Thor was struck by an automobile when retrieving a ball-nevertheless brought it back to the golfer, wagged his tail, died...
Until yesterday I was not shocked by your editorial treatment, but the shock of yesterday struck home like a blow from the hammer of Thor. I refer to your treatment of the recent sad incident in the life of Frank Norris in TIME, July 26 [RELIGION, p. 18], which I regard as an unwarranted irruption of blackguardism. I hold no brief for the Southern preacher ; if a fair trial establishes the fact that he is guilty he should pay the penalty for his crime. Neither do I defend Fundamentalism and Fundamentalists as such ; but I do believe in the integrity...
...about the money markets of Manhattan last week. They were the blue-gummed, loose-wristed, grimacing gentry who ages ago clambered out of gloomy, endless pits in Saxony, bearing queer ores, green and blue and variegated, ores which they melted down with Loki's fires and pounded with Thor's hammer into shapes useful for the villagers...
...Monday, Moon's day; Tuesday, Tiu's day; Wednesday, Woden's day; Thursday, Thor...
...Hindenburg was offered the historic golden goblet of Stuttgard, a tankard fit for Thor,* brimming with native Suabian wine. Dismayed, he cried, "I certainly can't empty that!" None the less he tippled good-humoredly and downed a stiff Prussian toast...