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...That the Press exerts a harmful influence upon the community." At Boston College, the Cambridge men lost, but won from George Washington University (Washington, D. C.), on the proposition that that Government had intruded too far upon the rights of individuals. The Oxford wranglers, all facetious in the traditional vein of the Oxford Union, ranged with fairly consistent success as far west as Washington University (St. Louis, Mo.), which beat them on Prohibition. They achieved their most brilliant victory last week at Franklin & Marshall College, in Pennsylvania-Dutch Lancaster, Pa., not two hours distant from Valley Forge and the cradle...
...uncommon thing for a knocked-down deer to do. A bullet clipping a deer at the base of the horns or just above the spine will often stun the animal for some time. Experienced deerslayers invariably sever their kill's jugular vein immediately upon reaching it, in the interests of safety, mercy, and to bleed the meat while it is still warm...
...that the ignornt keepers of the chapel and the ignorant natives of the neighborhood are guilty of constant, unconscious vandalism against these ancient works of art. After witnessing with a shudder the desecration of the images by greasy hands and modern mud-daubed restorations, he proceeds in the solemn vein:--"Thus it was that I was enabled to set about a labour of love and reverently to pry from its pedestal a figure halting upon one knee, with sensitive hands clasped in adoration before its bosom (now in the Fogg). No vandal hand but mine had disturbed it for eleven...
...able to keep it up, however, and drops back to the earlier vein to tell us why he lives in Tahiti. He appears to have sufficient reason and convincing: Tahiti, by common consent, isn't such a bad place anyway...
...John Erskine now proceeds to lay bare to the sophisticates the story of Galahad or, as he subjoins, "enough of his life to explain his reputation". There are rumors that exposes of Cleopatra and other famous and lovely ladies of antiquity will follow. Mr. Erskine has struck a rich vein and his investigations are receiving popular acclaim. If he stops this side of sensationalism, and, from the nature of his own literary character one has the right to assume that he will, he will have provided a new and amusing genre, building modern fables on ancient foundations...