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...Where are the rows of yesteryear...
...Cummins of Iowa, President pro tem, of the Senate, was the loser of the Chairmanship. Mr. Cummins, who came to Congress in 1908 as a radical and foe of the railways, who fought side by side with LaFollette and Borah in the insurgent movement of yesteryear, was defeated by the votes of his former comrades. Mr. LaFollette swung his radical group into the Democratic column, carrying with him three other Republicans, Brookhart, Ladd and Frazier, and the two Farmer-Laborites, Shipstead and Magnus Johnson. Bruce of Maryland, lone Democrat, clung to Cummins to the last. The final vote was : Smith...
...Writers of the present day can submerge themselves in the atmosphere of other times or more primitive climes and so produce a Sea-Hawk or a Lord Jim. But among the furnaces, the black smoke, and the steel girders of modern America, "where are the snows of yesteryear...
...Dean Yeomans to the effect that the undergraduate of today is more mature than the one of a generation past, is gratifying, to say the least. The thought that we could for a moment rank above the be whiskered beaux that stare at us out of the pictures of yesteryear had never entered our heads; the most we hoped for was the courage to steer a semi-dignified course down the path where they had trod before. But now that is all changed...
...questions was an heritage rather than the result of their own thought. But because Grandfather succumbed to the appeal of Bryan's "Cross of Gold", should we support the Democratic party? Political platforms change. Free silver, and the protective tariff versus free trade are relegated to the shades of yesteryear...