'Man About Town Column' from Durham Sun, May 17, 1925

The Man About Town Column

Glenn Frank

And now that it has been announced that Glen Frank, editor of the Century magazine, is to deliver the commencement address at Chapel Hill on June 10, all the people who are quite sure that they know all about religion and that everything has been settled regarding it, and that modernists are a bunch of nitwits—all these should get ready to go and hear the MAN who, to us, is the outstanding thinker of the age so far as religious thought is concerned.

[First name was spelled “Glenn” in headline and “Glen” in the text.]

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A Joyous Game

It was in the gloaming and two joyous little girls were having a wonderful time on the sidewalk. They had one end of a rope tied to a tree next to the curb and one of them would twirl it while the other jumped the rope. They did this while no one was coming along. But when a peripatetic would come along, taunt would go the rope across the way and no passing was allowed until the person told his name to those joyous ones at their happy game.

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Spring Swallows

The other evening between sundown and dark a great flock of swallows was seen fling back and forth over the city in the same way as a swarm of gnats is often seen to do on a summer evening. They swarmed around over the tree tops and stayed rather closely together as though they were playing some sort of a game. Maybe they were—perhaps the flight or dance of spring.

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May Be a Good Risk

An old white man went into a local life insurance office a few days ago and requested a policy. “Why, uncle,” said the president of the company, “you are too old for us to take the risk. How old are you?”

“Ninety-seven next August,” said the old man, and added testily: “If you folk will take the trouble to look up your statistics, you’ll find that mighty few men died after they’re ninety-seven.”

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Higher Education

The son had just returned from college, and had started acting as if the world owed him a living. One evening a friend of the family called, and during the course of the conversation, asked: “What did college teach your son?” “The only thing that I see that the college taught him, was about fifty new ways of making a fool of himself,” the father replied.

From the editorial page of The Durham Sun, Sunday morning, May 17, 1925

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