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This ancient tradition has a much broader aim, however, than the mere cataloguing of peculiarities, that is, individual peculiarities. It aims to give in a few striking details a bird's eye view of the entire class as revealed in its most characteristic likes and dislikes. Here are some of the results, quoted from the Princeton Alumni Weekly, which show what four years of college have done for the Class...
...Clark goes on to say that "the more articulate student of today is a 'wise bird'--nothing fools him, especially the cherished institutions in or out of college." He doubts the sincerity and significance of student discontent upon evidence gathered from five sources: the Boston University Beanpot, the Harvard Lampoon, the Harvard Advocate, the Nassau Literary Magazine, and the Syracuse University Speckled Bird--all of which fell under the ban of censorship. If the two Harvard publications are representative of the others in this quintet, it would be folly to say that their suppression is evidence of any deepseated revolt...
...many of whom, it was noticed, were old men-dignified seigneurs, others whose peaked countenances and obvious irascibility made it clear that they could come under no definition other than that of curmudgeon. They aimed trembling fingers at a panel of the memorial which was said to represent Rima, bird-nymph, a character in Hudson's Green Mansions. Next morning, letters appeared in the press denouncing the plaque as an "atrocity," calling upon the Government to remove it, hinting that "there were those" who would subscribe the necessary funds. Tory critics wrote venomous articles excoriating Epstein. They pointed...
...Distinguished Service," read the golden, three-inch medals awarded by the Roosevelt Memorial Association last week, presented by President Coolidge, to Governor Gifford Pinchot of Pennsylvania, George Bird Grinnell of Manhattan and Miss Martha Berry, of Possum Trot...
...East Room of the White House, with Cabinet officers, General Pershing and other notables standing by, the President distributed appropriate lauds and shiny Roosevelt Memorial Medals to Miss Martha Berry, Gifford Pinchot and George Bird Grinnell (see EDUCATION...