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...decision handed down last week by the U. S. Supreme Court showed that Old Man Venner is still at it. He knows what courts are for-rich old Clarence Venner does. They exist for the purpose of enabling a smart fellow to annoy his neighbors, especially when, as in these days, his neighbors are big corporations...
...enlivening of Class Day, its rejuvenation, does not entail unearthing a new traditions which have died a natural death. The problem is one of cultivating those which already exist, and of providing further embellishments for eye, ear, and wit to meet the anticipation of those who attend. The rush of Seniors to graduate schools, or to fortunately obtained employment lessons the outstanding significance of Commencement to a large number of men. Class Day can be revamped and returned to a semblance of its former hearty self if the exercises are arranged to provide more substantial nourishment for the Harvard tempered...
...been said that these students are dudes, toughs, and gladiators. This situation may exist in the Cantabrigian institution, but the number does not dictate student sentiment. The moral corruption and extravagance rests almost solely in a limited class. It is in this group only that little study, fast life and immoral actions persist...
...intellectual who voted for Norman Thomas, honestly inspired by a shadowy Utopianism. The same lack of practically applies to the conference. They would erect ideals and plan remedies for a distant future of which they have no conception, forgetting how useless it is to reform something that does not exist and may never exist. Overestimating the influence of the university on society they ignore that society, and hopefully strive to establish theories for an unknown future...
...course this is grossly unfair. The person who writes in a book which is common property is a philosopher. He is an egoist, who believes other that his is the only mind which can be proved to exist, and therefore that his actions can have no effect on other minds, or that his mind is universal to such a degree that all which is important to him is important to all. From such a cosmic attitude the fact that poor bookworms suffer from painter's colic is negligible. In his underlining the egoist is making a modest bid for immortality...