Word: wits
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...Massachusetts law, as it is applied at present, requires. Although most of us are inclined to concur in the reply which one of the Harvard men involved in last spring's election "frauds" is said to have made to the court's query as to his earning capacity, to wit, that it is unlimited, yet this stupid question should be asked, and so long as the suffrage is not hedged with pecuniary qualifications, the matter of self-support, to one who is pursuing an education, should have nothing to do with his freedom to exercise his constitutional right...
...fresher is the material around which Mr. Henderson writes his "Unseen Genius." The village half-wit who reads voraciously, with his doting mother and the stupid, brutal father, on whom he finally bends the horsewhip, is a perennially appearing subject. But here, too, there are bright spots. Mr. Henderson's local color is well painted; his realism (although I draw the line at mention of "Aunt Hitty's old entrails" being "stirred to the depths"--especially after Mr. Gowdy's remark that Jim Gowan's rival had not "a white spot in 'im from the guts up") is undeniably effective...
...gaining an education does not make one a resident under our voting laws. Going to any college to be educated simply as a student does not give one the right to be assessed and registered there unless there exist the two things I have stated and emphasized--to wit, that he actually went there to make his residence with the intention to abandon the residence from which he came, to adopt this as his residence not merely for the definite time of his college course, four years, but an indefinite time with that interest to make it his residence...
...does not make one a resident under our voting laws. Going to Harvard College" or any other college, "to be educated simply as a student does not give one the right to be assessed and registered there unless there exist the two things I have stated and emphasized--to wit, that he actually went there to make his residence with the intent to abandon the residence from which he came, to adopt this as his residence not merely for the definite time of his college course, four years, but an indefinite time with that interest to make it his residence...
William Hodge has come to Boston in his first new play for ten years, "Fixing Sister," at the Majestic. In some respects this play is like those former familiar vehicles of Mr. Hodge, full of quiet humor and Yankee wit, and again the hero is a "man from home," shrewd, drawling, and lovable. This time, however, he is in different surroundings, for he has chosen to place himself, not in a little village, but in the midst of the society life of New York...