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...convincing. While there is perhaps not one chance in ten thousand that any of the supporters of the various student political clubs will achieve the office of President, all of them will assume the duties of citizenship. To know something of the nature and method of political organization is doubtless of value to the voter, even if acquired in a mock manner. It is to the political genious alone, as Roosevelt's career seems to testify, that participation or non-participation in student activities is a matter of complete indifference...
...great wealth" in the most recent explosions of Charles G. Dawes. Mr. Dawes has lately been calling everyone who disagrees with him a "peewit plutogog". "Peewit" is merely a polite euphemism, but "plutogog" is evidently of sterner metal. It is obviously compounded of equal parts of "plutocrat" and "demagogue"--doubtless of the baser elements which these two words connote...
...said that the historical romances of Alexandre Dumas are in more demand at the Public Library than any other fiction. Doubtless the books most read are "The Three Musketeers," "Twenty Years After" and "The Vicomte de Bragelonne," in which the intrepid d'Artagnan holds the front of the stage as a young blade who never refuses a passage at anms, as a mature fighting man whose wrist is steadier and whose judgement more sure, and as a veteran whose character has become nobler with his years and whose valor remains equal to any test. It must have been with...
...undergraduate has listened apathetically to appeals for his interest in the seething world outside. Except when such participation promised a gay torchlight procession or a chance to hurl milk bottles without interference it moved him not. But when deans and presidents themselves rush from the cloister the undergraduates will doubtless fling aside robes and sandals and plunge into the whirring world...
...seemed likely some abandoned school plant might be bought for reasons of economy. The faculty had not been announced, but would probably include a number of Amherst professors who resigned with Dr. Meiklejohn. The en dowment millions and the new student body were still missing, but were doubtless to be recruited among people who have confidence in Dr. Meiklejohn and agree with him that a college should be small, should nurture freedom of thought and discussion, should tolerate nothing short of the best teaching, should keep free from tradition's hide binding tendency...