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...Chamber of Commerce is correct in the assumption that the college degrees of their members do not qualify them to talk intelligently. Even famous scholars sometimes find difficulty in expressing their opinions in public Doubly hard must it be for the mass of college men, who later turn into the mass of business men, to express themselves. During their college course, their ingenuity displayed itself chiefly in concealing a lack of knowledge. No small wonder they never learned how to present ideas of their...
Upon the strength of these facts, which we believe are correct, we are filled with commiseration for the students of Trinity and for the editor of the Tripod in particular, who appears as a victim of the boldest, kind of injustice and official stupidity. It is not for outsiders to judge of the duty of Trinity College, but Dean Troxell's original statement, when translated into general terms is certainly a debatable one. Most college students in America would probably vote for Stephenson's side of the argument...
...memory is correct, November 11 is hallowed as the day on which the barbarities of war ceased. Who, then, should have a better right to commemorate the day than workers for peace? And if soldiers, forgetting the nobility of their cause, turn jingoes, nothing could be more appropriate than their absence from the celebration...
...make such a fortune in the piano business as the last three? A flying hint from here and there has lately indicated that the prestige of the pianoforte is failing. Last month, for instance, one Hugh Blaker wrote a letter to the London Spectator: "Sir, If it is correct that the popularity of the piano is declining, it will be the greatest stimulus to the appreciation of pure music since the Seventeenth Century. Almost all the vulgarity and over-cleverness of modern musical expression can be traced to the universal cult of the piano; this mechanical pattering . . . a hopeless jumble...
...Leaving that aside, I have my own interests and grievances as a citizen. My wife suffered from laming traumatic dislocation for eight years. Thanks to the obsolete training maintained by the General Medical Council, registered surgeons were unable to correct it. They did not pretend to. Their final verdict was, 'You must go to Barker.' But the General Medican Council said, 'If you go to that blackleg you shall howl for it, as we will ruin any man who dares administer an anesthetic.' And in fact the operation, which was completely successful, was performed without anesthetic...