or a sign, immediately catch the eye at the beginning of an
article. Every conceivable source may be drawn on for quotations,
provided, of course, that what is quoted has close connection with the
subject. If the quotation expresses an extraordinary idea, it possesses
an additional source of interest.

Verse quotations may be taken from a well-known poem, a popular song, a
nursery rhyme, or even doggerel verse. Sometimes a whole poem or song
prefaces an article. When the verse is printed in smaller type than the
article, it need not be enclosed in quotation marks. In his typewritten
manuscript a writer may indicate this difference in size of type by
single-spacing the lines of the quotation.

Prose quotations may be taken from a speech or an interview, or from
printed material such as a book, report, or bulletin. The more
significant the quoted statement, the more effective will be the
introduction. When the quotation consists of several sentences or of one
long sentence, it may comprise the first paragraph, to be followed in
the second paragraph by the necessary explanation.

Popular sayings, slogans, or current phrases are not always enclosed in
quotation marks, but are often set off in a separate paragraph as a
striking form of beginning.

The most conspicuous quotation beginnings are reproductions of newspaper
clippings, advertisements, price lists, menus, telegrams, invitations,
or parts of legal documents. These are not infrequently reproduced as
nearly as possible in the original form and may be enclosed in a frame,
or "box."

QUOTATION BEGINNINGS

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(_New York Evening Post_)

"DIGNIFIED AND STATELY"

BEING AN ACCOUNT OF SOME HIGH AND LOW JINKS PRACTICED ABOUT THIS
TIME ON COLLEGE CLASS DAYS

BY EVA ELISE VOM BAUR

_Our sorrows are forgotten,
And our cares are flown away,
While we go marching through Princeton_.

Singing these words, 'round and 'round the campus they marched,
drums beating time which no one observed, band clashing with band,
in tune with nothing but the dominant note--the joy of reunion. A
motley lot of men they are--sailors and traction engineers,
Pierrots, soldiers, and even vestal virgins--for the June
Commencement is college carnival time.

Then hundreds upon thousands of men, East, West, North and South,
drop their work and their worries, and leaving families and
creditors at home, slip