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William Mann Irvine, Headmaster, Mercersburg Academy: "My school (TIME, July 21, 1924) last week lost by midnight fire its main building, famed old Marshall Hall, built in 1846 as the original building of Marshall College. One hundred fifty students rushed out, mostly in pajamas; they lost most of their belongings, and the school's loss, fortunately covered by insurance, was $300,000. Presi- dent Coolidge's two sons once sat in classes in the building. Class- room work will be interrupted for perhaps two weeks."
Rufus Daniel Isaacs, Marquess of Reading: "The Anderson Galleries, Manhattan, last week exhibited the furnishings of my London house, which are shortly to be auctioned. I sell because I desire a different interior decoration, and commentators thought that something more unified might indeed be desirable— for the pieces include Windsor, Hepplewhite, Sheraton and Chippendale, Queen Anne, Cromwellian and Georgian specimens, to say nothing of a neo-Greek table of 1790, in two parts."
Ralph ("Moon") Baker, all-American halfback: "En route to gymnasium last week from my fraternity house, Phi Kappa Pi, at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill., I heard screams. Clinging to a Lake Michigan pier pillar, her body half submerged in icy water, was Althea Levere, eight, who had fallen in while playing. I waded in; carried her ashore."
Harry Means Crooks, President of Alma College:*" 'Women are almost entirely responsible for the success of the immoral sex novel,' said I bravely last week, before the Women's Club of Highland Park, Mich., Detroit suburb. 'A novel of that sort always has five to twenty more feminine than masculine readers. But,' I added, 'books of the Sunday School library and the dime novel type are certainly immoral.' Commentators recalled Joseph Hergesheimer's saucy address at Yale a few years ago: The Feminine Nuisance in Literature."
Eugene Brieux, author of Damaged Goods and Under Fire, Member of the French Academy: "Said I to a U. S. correspondent last week: 'I pity the American woman very much. . . . Your men . . . they are not what they should be.... They do not know how to love women completely—with body, soul and heart. Therefore, it is natural that the women of America should be restless and so they search and try to live for themselves—to have "careers". ... I am glad that our women do not take that road. . . . Woman is made for conception. . . . Oui, sa destinée c'est la maternité.' "
Laura Volstead, the one ewe lamb of famed Andrew J. Volstead: "Much of my adult life has been spent in Washington helping my father; my official (voting) residence is still Granite Falls, Minn.; I have lived in St. Paul for only 18 months; nevertheless, the Women's Republican Club of St. Paul elected me president last week, after heated parliamentary squabble. Forthwith, I announced I would change my voting place to St. Paul."