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...appeal to traditional wisdom and proceeds to discuss a minor Greek poet. Homer is cited again and again, Aeschyins appears here and there. The English student of Greek philosophy is able to begin the "Republic" with a background as much like that of Plato as any modern youth can attain. In Honor Mods and at school he has been saturated in the same poets. He can supply an apt quotation where Plato has not bothered to do so. He becomes intimately acquainted with Greek history and Greek institutions. He is able to deal with Plato as the quintessence...
Lastly, the Crusaders believe that through militant organization and in no other way can they attain their goal. They think that there never has been a time when a dollar will go as far as it will in the forthcoming elections to Congress. Thomas B. Eastland, Jr. '33. Philip Boyer...
...quite good. But from this point on Playwright Galsworthy runs into third-act trouble. Unable to attain the brilliant crescendo of a Grand Hotel, Playwright Galsworthy gets all his characters to the roof of the hostelry-where they again show how civilized folk face a crisis-and finally permits all save the foolish incendiarist to be rescued by belated pompiers...
...been killed, the name "prenty." Queensland has ocean-going crocodiles, second cousins of lizards, 33 ft. long, largest on earth. It has huge monitor lizards which can run, swim, climb facilely. The largest monitor lizards known are savage "dragons" on the East Indian islands Komodo, Rintja and Flores. They attain loft. lengths. There is good reason to assume that the scary "prenty" is an Australian monitor...
...comparatively recent birth of interest and practice in instrumental and choral music in American institutions of secondary and higher education makes confident the prophecy that America soon will attain a musical majority. With the future in mind is it not high time to give constructive consideration to the question of supporting the arts with public funds? The number of wealthy citizens is limited and the demands of support of art in America will overwhelm their generous gestures...