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...CRIMSON has seemed unnecessarily critical. Even if the movement is superficial, it is valuable in itself and as an index of something deeper. But at present we know little about it. Heywood Broun commends it, and Harvard college immediately becomes occipital. Our attitude seems to indicate either fear or contempt of the new tendency. It certainly indicates insularity and self-satisfaction...
...stimulant at best. The theatre, if it is to recover, must do so through itself, rather than through any extrinsic influences. And, after all, New York may grow disgusted with its iniquities. The Restoration period went through something of the same career, we believe. Familiarity is said to breed contempt...
...learn with pleasure how quickly the Freshmen have become saturated with the spirit of things as they are. Although we gave up the idea of a complete vote in the upperclasses some time ago, we suspected that one term would not suffice to instill in the Freshmen a hearty contempt for polls and elections. But apparently our fears were groundless; since the class of 1925, faithfully following the example of its elders, has cast 449 ballots out of the 522 required for the justly famous sixty per cent...
...certain changes have taken place in the competitive system which are the cause of the August Senior's contempt for present-day compets, and which at the same time are the answer to the above-mentioned faculty point of view. The change came largely as the result of high casualty rates among compets. The public attention which attached itself to these casualty rates, though it caused much hard feeling at the time, was a good thing in bringing about alterations in the competitive system. Slavery has been abolished; compets now have a few rights as students which their bosses must...
...author of this tract, do say: Since Batando and Aquinca hold each other in mutual contempt, there are those that cry aloud: "Let us not have this spirit of hostility--are we not brethren one to another? Let Aquinca open his heart to Batando and Batando to Aquinca and there will be an end of littleness; yea, such a joyous exchange of fellowship there will be that we will return to the state of our ancestors, when differences between one man and another were unknown...