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...Carmi A. Thompson (member of the onetime "Ohio gang"), held in awe by many a Filipino as the Personal Representative of Big White President Coolidge, has come home. He landed at Seattle, Wash., last week after some five months of poking through tropic seas, doffing his white helmet to Sulu chieftains, smiling blandly at high-strung Filipino politicos. Much more than all that is recorded judiciously in his comprehensive report to the President on the economic and governmental condition of the Philippines...
...Samuel Insull will make it pay. Rarely, when he is in Chicago, does he miss a performance. In the entr'acte he goes behind to encourage the singers and they in turn speak of him as "Papa Insull" and give him their money to invest. They repeat with awe the statement that he has never lost a penny for himself or anyone else, and that he still has the first shilling he made when he worked for Editor Bowles. That he likes music there can be no doubt, but some say that the tune he likes best...
...Grand Lama of Tibet, most fundamental of Fundamentalists, has bowed to Science. His mystery palace, the Potala, at Lhasa, now flashes with electricity, according to epochal word just received. Age after age, the grand Lama's seclusion has been a byword to awe. Lhasa, the Forbidden City-what European had seen it? A few 18th Century Capuchin friars; persistent but mostly unsuccessful 19th Century explorers. Not until 1904, under armed expedition of Col. Francis E. Younghusband, was there any adequate description. Since then things have moved faster in the Buddhist Mecca...
Guided into the paths of righteousness by these regulations the Freshmen of 1787 trod thorny ways with constant anxiety about hats and the right of way. And the rules quoted above are only some of the milder restrictions. More awe inspiring were the provisions requiring Freshmen to run errands for upperclassmen and giving to the upperclassmen unlimited right of chastisement in case the mission went askew. But sufficient has been said to show the humblest Yale Freshman who walks the campus that he is monarch of all he surveys in comparison with the lot of his unhappy ancestors
...curricular activities so that one type is admitted to the exclusion of all others. Fortunately at Harvard nearly every individual may find in some club a congenial group. Consequently, and to the advantage of the system, no very large number of students regard any particular set of clubs with awe. What is suitable for one man is not so for another...