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...thoughtless pre-Lenten frolic on a Shrove Tuesday morning one hundred years ago in old New Orleans. Through the gumbo mud, the open ditches, along the plank sidewalks, under the street lanterns, paraded seven drunken students, back from their schools in France. As they whirled past the colonial guard station, a startled guardsman gave pursuit to the celebrators, chased them pell-mell down into the Old Quarter, by the Place D'Armes, past the St. Louis Cathedral, along streets lined with white houses embroidered with iron balconies...
Sirs: Nearly two years ago, I wrote you regarding a flippant reference to Negro students at Hampton Institute in Virginia and you replied: "I agree with you-we were thoughtless and unfair. . . . Through you, I apologize to any of the 11,000,000 whom we may have hurt. What amends can we make ? It seems to me that the best possible amends is for us to resolve in the future to be as fair as we were up to the time of this unfortunate article. . . ." Has your resolution of March 24, 1925, been forgotten? Apparently, for TIME in its issue...
Yale, Harvard and Princeton are bound together not so much by tradition or custom as by their common opportunity to aid the development of education. At times strident voices of a thoughtless minority cause commotion, but if the Big Three are bound by a mutuality of aim and a dedication to American education, their bonds of friendship will be unbreakable and abiding
...public. They used so much paint on their lips that they soaked it off with the soup and were obliged to make up again between courses!"); that have engaged "well-posted" young men to conduct Roach Straton to resorts whence might be drawn anathema upon modern dancing for a thoughtless, urbane congregation ("For surely, my friends, if there is any choice . . . the odds are all in favor of hugging on the sofa, as the dance is hugging set to music, and music always has an exciting effect . . . rhythmical motion . . . stimulus of music . . . bodily contact . . . danger . . . wreck . . . ruin...
...Vale of Oak Park, I11., countered with the fact that Dr. Thompson is a man of lowly origin whom, but for "the clammy hand of death," Mr. Bryan himself would have arisen to describe as one with whom "the integrity of the gospel would be absolutely safe." When thoughtless Dr. George A. Sevier of Denver, , seconding Dr. McAfee, protested that the West was entitled to "recognition" this year, eloquent Edward D. Duffield, president of the Prudential Life Insurance Co., pointed out that Dr. Thompson is no"provincial" candidate, and asked, as a business man, that the affairs of the Church...