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...first blow is for the critics, whom he divides into four classes, and then by means of brightly entertaining dialogue, levels them with the very meanest worm that ever crawled the earth's surface. It seems that Shaw took particular delight in "roasting" the critics of whom he has always had small opinion. It was he who once said "Produce me your best critic, and I will criticise his head off." He does. But one wonders if this clan does not like it; if the critics, so often feared, or forgotten, by the playwrights, do not enjoy the play...
...conspectus which is, at the very least, sober and comes very near to being pessimistic. Reversing President Butler's order of presentation, we find that we live today under a new-paganism in which individual appetite or impulse has replaced the belief in law, whether in Heaven or on earth. For this state of affairs the universities, according to President Butler, must bear their share of guilt. And from the universities the lusting after false gods may be traced down through the high schools to the elementary schools, where the young must no longer "be guided or disciplined by their...
Baron De Geer is world famous as the first to devise a method for measuring in years the length of the latest geological period, which hitherto could be judged but relatively. He is also well-known for his map of the formation of the earth's crust and for his studies of the characteristics and movements of the ancient glaciers of North-western Europe. The former is still useful today and was the best map for many years after its publication...
...popular American novelist once remarked: "A Frenchman can understand a joke if it's nasty; an Italian if it's cruel; an Englishman if it's explained to him; and a German if it's on somebody else; but an American is the only man on earth who can understand a joke on himself. The American sense of humor is a bubble on the cup of courage." Isn't there a Japanese sense of humor...
...course of their College career. Apparently very few, judging by the general ignorance of the special collections and the complete helplessness of the average student when necessity sometimes forces him to resort to the catalogue room. As Mr. Morrison says, "Here are books from all the corners of the earth and card indexed! Plunge in! Learn to wonder and to love and live...