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Packard is Packard. An automobile left Tsingtao last week for Peking and points west-the points being vague oases in the bandit-infested, scantily charted Gobi desert. Camels and asses had crossed it before, but never a stock touring car. The leader of the expedition is Mark L. Moody, head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business & Finance: Motor Week | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

It is regrettable that the controversy about the latest English 72 examination has been so obscured by invective and the attempt to be humorous on the part of the various commentators on the merits and defects of the said examination. Slightly varying the words of Dr. Johnson, "They have been...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Particular | 3/29/1928 | See Source »

The asses have brayed. Let them now return to the barnyard and all there is therein. Name withheld on request

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Defense of English 72 | 3/27/1928 | See Source »

Legitimate criticism is appreciated by everyone, and is to be encouraged everywhere, but the braying of an ass is ever objectionable, and particularly so when it occurs outside of the barnyard. And it would seem that several asses have got loose in and about the college yard.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Defense of English 72 | 3/27/1928 | See Source »

Three asses have brayed, and what have they accomplished? Nothing, except that smug feeling of satisfaction that every ass gets when he feels he has uttered something of surpassing sagacity; which feeling he communicates to the world by a certain lazy wagging of his aural appendages.

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: In Defense of English 72 | 3/27/1928 | See Source »

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