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...United Press last week: "Bird life including every known species from sparrow to mammoth owls present a pitiful sight with screaming and chattering. The noise is deafening -weird sounds around occasional water holes where wild life flocks and fights for existence. Waters formerly productive of fish are now barren, the fish left baking in the sun on the banks. Suwannee (of song fame), Satilla, Alapaha, and Setto Rivers are now mere excavations with occasional mudholes, wild and domestic hogs feeding upon fish left marooned by drought...
...knowledge he has acquired. A detailed study of the American past avails nothing, if it is not put to some constructive use in the future. All this Mr. Shorey neglected while betraying his quite natural affection for the good old days. Granting the speaker that modern culture is a barren wasteland, Phi Beta Kappa men should not be advised to eschew it for the more pleasant task of literary research. They should be urged only to insert their keys in the doors that will open more pleasant avenues of thought and culture...
Bleak and barren Jaipur, a Rajput realm on one of India's high plateaus, rejoiced in frenzied thanksgiving last week at what seemed to superstitious Rajputs a miracle...
...other people," said Professor Nordal, "who have given so much thought to poetry under such adverse conditions. Their literature is directly the result of their history; their vigor for conquest turned to a tendency to recount their heroic deeds of the past when they found themselves isolated on a barren island and unable to push on further...
...hurried this change. the nations looked out over the barren world with the sad face of disillusion. God, if there was a God, no longer was in His Heaven, and nothing was right with the world. Literature was not slow to sense this change. A new school grew up, a school of brittle intellectuals which bathed in the flotsam of a world beside itself. The decade of the twenties found a group of poets who distrusted the emotions, the subtler verse forms, the glories of nature, the grandeur of idealism. While the Romantics were making their last weak exit lines...