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...Congress: A rear-rank private in the G. O. P. infantry, he is obedient, dutiful, conservative. No speechmaker, he did not utter a word on the House floor (except to answer roll calls) during the first three months of the current session. Though his attendance is good, he is unknown to many of his colleagues and to the Press at large. He modestly writes his own biography in the Congressional Directory in a line and one-half. As a physician he brings his medical knowledge and experience to bear on legislative questions arising in the World War Veterans' Legislation...
...Unknown except to radicals, Professor Pokrovsky was mourned last week as "the leading historian of the Russian Revolution." Past an honor guard of Red cavalrymen with drawn sabres the professor's cremated ashes were borne to a niche cut in the Kremlin wall behind Lenin's Tomb, popped in and covered with a bronze tablet while Red soldiers fired a three-volley salute...
...they were thrown together again. Castorley said something about the woman Manallace loved, which inspired in Manallace a smoldering anger. Years later, when Castorley had become so prominent as an author on "our Dan" that the slightest jiggle might pitch him into knighthood, a fragment of a hitherto unknown "Canterbury Tale" turns up in New York. Castorley is of course consulted. The lines he proclaims undoubtedly authentic: "Plangent as doom, my dear boy?look...
Fifty-five Freshmen have already signed their names to a petition for inter-House eating posted by an unknown person on the bulletin board at the Harvard Union. The petition has been up since yesterday morning...
...National Quarterly of Verse") in its spring issue: "Theodore Roosevelt, Governor General of the Philippine Islands, claims that he cannot write poetry. The Carillon has been honored with ... his first contribution. We believe our readers will differ with 'T. R.' " Onetime explorer. Poet Roosevelt contemplates explorers, known & unknown, in On a Pass in Szchewan. Excerpts: Around its lie the snowfields, smooth and white...