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Rumors to the contrary, the new bell in Harvard Hall is a worthy acquisition. A deep tone not alone fails to irritate but even pleases the ear of the sleepless one who hears its seven o'clock tribute to tradition. And the solemn announcement that another class has departed its watch-pocketing professor (bad phrase) comes well, very well from its melodious clapper...
Patriotic pessimism is a rare attitude. Even in the most discouraging narrative of national failure, one almost always finds a hopeful note. Apparently, the philosophical fallacy that progress is inevitable has made a deep impression on the minds of men. The latest pronunciamento of Dean Ralph Inge, the "gloomy Dean" of newspaper headlines, contains a healthy antidote to such universal optimism. In his recent book, he prophesies the gradual decl no of England exhausted by internal and external...
...hairless, perfumed bronze body immaculate, especially his teeth, "white as hailstones," which stood far apart from assiduous picking. He eschewed jewelry but put antimony on his eyebrows to sharpen his sight. He let a black wilderness of beard riot down to conceal one thin line of fur on his deep chest, but he clipped his mustache. On special occasions he shaved his poll. Divinely conferred, a large mole adorned his back...
...Perhaps laws and measures issued recently injure deep feelings which at first it would seem should be respected. But those laws and measures have been dictated with a memory of painful historical experience. "Just as history justifies those laws issued half a century ago, which then provoked general dissatisfaction, so the President is confident that future history will justify what has been done." Rebuttal. The Mexican Episcopate issued a long and passionate rebuttal next day. One paragraph distilled the whole document to a sulphuric essence...
...foot shark nosed lazily about, off Santa Catalina Island in the Pacific. It was a bright day. In the pellucid blue beneath him the shark could see scores of rakish fish shapes, deep brown, like his own; silver-edged green, mottled grey, golden bellied; big tuna, amber jacks and yellowtails curving dreamily hither and yon, flashing off now and again for a bite of food. A school of his kind wrangled over a dead porpoise, but the big shark had fed. He lolled contentedly...