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...almost three hundred years ago when Edward Hopkins carried Anne Yale across his polished threshold into the comfort of a well-appointed home. Governor Hopkins was a busy man, a wealthy London merchant, but well he understood the Chaucer's exclamation "on bokes." As befitted his wealth and inclination, the good man's library was a matter of envy; and in the long absences of her husband, Mistress Anne, being a "goodly young woman of special parts," was quick to 'sconce herself in the deep chairs and seek companionship in that cozy den. Too long however did the small head...
...less of advantage to the student or graduate of average means in two ways: by increase in their price, and by decrease in the number of games to which they would admit. And now the season ticket has been done away with. We appear to be on the threshold of a period in which college games will degenerate into a striving of young gladiators for the entertainment of mobs which have nothing in common with the contestants, mobs whose members, in turn, have nothing in common between themselves save the possession of a substantial amount of money...
...Governor General, King George's representative, enters the ring. Just before His Excellency Governor General James McNeill entered his box, Frank Aiken, Minister of Defense in President de Valera's Republican cabinet, issued orders to the army band not to play. Governor McNeill teetered nervously on the threshold, but an imported British ensemble known as St. Hilda's Band saved the day. Shouldering their tubas, dragging the bass drum, they dashed across the field, blared "The Soldier's Song" with a flourish...
...people are either fighting to bar the wolf from the door or struggling inside the threshold to keep his fangs from their throat. They have little time or money to spend on railroad consolidation plans...
...Atlanta later in the week Candidate Roosevelt delivered another campaign speech. Addressing Oglethorpe University's commencement crowd, he declared: "I believe we are on the threshold of a fundamental change in our popular economic thought, that in the future we are going to think less about the producer and more about the consumer. Do what we may have to do to inject life into our ailing economic order, we cannot make it endure for long unless we can bring about a wiser, more equitable distribution of the national income. . . . The country demands bold persistent experimentation. It is common sense...