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RIVALRY - Sarah Warder MacConnell-Macaulay ($2). Two sisters, petty-vicious, put a docile plot through its paces. It must be shown that Julia is vain and envious, so she meets her fiance's mistress. Elena, the homely sister, must be thwarted, so she is crippled for life the very moment her dancing wins applause. She marries an artistic wanderer, who then dies. At home she finds Julia also a widow. They settle down to an earnest sisterly tussle for admiration and happiness, envy matching envy with competitive malice. Julia still has money and looks, so the reader...
...Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain...
...Thou shalt have no other gods before Me (1). 3) Thou shalt not kill (6). 4) Thou shalt not commit adultery (7). 5) Thou shalt not steal (8). 6) Thou shalt not bear false witness (9). 7) Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain (3). . . . 8) Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image (2). . . . ) Thou shalt not covet (10).... 10) Remember the Sabbath Day to keep it holy...
...Sophomore Moore (No. 1 above) had dined on New Year's Day, wrote on a piece of paper that he wanted to "find out how things are over there," and killed himself with a revolver. Members of his fraternity (Delta Kappa Epsilon) sat up two nights waiting in vain for a spirit message. Student Noe had promised: "I'll be back at midnight...
...several years since Mr. Percy Marks, by writing the 'Plastic Age," filled schoolboys with a keen eagerness for going to college and their parents with grave apprehensions about sending them there. Having sought in vain for another theme which would capitalize the furor he had made, the author has gone back to the adventures of the wild Cynthia and the experimentative Carl Peters, whom readers will recall as leaving the campus under rather a cloud. In the new book they are presented five years after...