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...peat thumb-nail sketch of His Excellency's Intellectual fibre, as well as the crude educational level of Tennessee, is drawn later by his own equivocal words--"After a careful examination, I can find nothing of consequence in the books now being taught in our schools which this bill would interfere with in the slightest manner. Therefore, it will not put our teachers in any jeopardy. Probably the law will never be applied. It may not be sufficiently definite to permit of any specific application or enforcement. Nobody believes that it is going to be an active statute...
...course there never was a Senior class that could keep track of all its members, get them photographed for the album, compile their thumb-nail biographies, cap-and-gown them and finally graduate them. Some men will always neglect their class duties. Why they do not have their pictures taken or answer the postal card pleas that various committees issue during the second half of the Senior year is hard to tell. But whether it is due to indifference or laziness (if these words be not synonymous) such neglect is unnecessary...