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...filng in search of the isle of Bimini. In modern times science promises synthetic youth. But rejuvenation by the academic method seems the more popular way. Even Harvard has its "Old Dog" basking anew in the sunlight of knowledge and the shadow of an incognito. If retired bond salesmen and cotton merchants should take any wholesale notion to imitate these examples, the "Freshman Red Book" may come to look like an advertising handbook for Colgate's Shaving Cream...
...Pilgrims sat down to luncheon. The Pilgrims?the modern Pilgrims, not the Fathers, of course-are fond of such an amiable proceeding. By such means they seek to strengthen the bond of mind and tongue and blood (in part) of old England and new United States. So several times a year they surround a common board, listen to the lighter observations of ambassadors and dignitaries, rejoicing in the amenities and urbanities of Anglo-American relations...
...bond of union among lecturers and other keen analysts of the world situation, is that the world is in a bas way. But of remedies there are as many as there are lectures. Excessive reading of books, high and dry prohibition, dancing, have all been set forth as the one sure method of saving the world from itself. The latest is by Mr. Glenn Frank, who thinks a sense of humor will do the trick...
...course, of the Italian-Hungarian duel-and of the Frenchiboxer who bit the ear of his English opponent. But what can you expect, in all common-sense? It is not so very long ago that individual members of rival football team, both Americans, and both supposedly united by the bond of a higher education, would "fight it out" by themselves after the game, is it so harrowing that two strangers, who have spent years in preparation to stake their reputations on the swing of a blade, should do the same? And the biting incident ended amicably. I believe, through...
Disliking as cordially as any Harvard man the bugaboo of "indifference" I shall take issue with your correspondent on only one of her remarks, although I can hardly follow her in such charges as "indifference toward academic work," "no getting together, no unity or bond of any sort," and being "cheated out of companionship," at Harvard. Of this it would seem that Harvard fellowship throughout the world is sufficient refutation...