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...college office. This action might be taken more than it now is with much benefit to a great many students. How many go through their college course without finding a great interest, an ideal to which they can reverently devote their best energies, merely because they have gone afield in the choice of their concentration, and have no one to show them that they have...
...many go through their college course without finding a great interest, an ideal to which they can reverently devote their best energies merely because they have gone afield in the choice of their concentration...
...Pacific, where the scattered cruisers and destroyers of the Blue Fleet plowed on, looking for the dark line of the approaching fleet. But the Black Fleet had eluded them. It was nine in the evening when the first contact was made. The cruisers had gone too far afield. So had the defending destroyers. The three fleet submarines of the Blue defenders sighted the approaching fleet, however, and made for their position in its path. Suddenly, the vanguard of destroyers of the Black Fleet gave the alarm...
...class of 1925 individually and collectively, are busied with accumulating the intellectual riff-raff of four years of study in the different fields of concentration. Actually, if our mentors would but understand us, there is going on in the "divided psyches" of these young men, thinking which is far afield from these supposed endeavors. Your Senior, if at all given to thinking, is already chafing under the hard task-master, the May examinations. He remembers that some of Harvard's finest "illustri"--Emerson, for example, and Thoreau keeping himself in the pink of condition waiting for something to turn...
...Certainly Mr. LaFollette has gone far afield in describing himself and his movement as 'progressive.' Mr. LaFollette prates about boss-ridden machine politics within the Republican Party, about the control of the 'predatory interests,' and yet who since the days when Lenin and Trotzky first set up their autocratic rule over the Russian people has attempted to dominate and boss those around him more than the Wisconsin Senator...