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...course the French Queen, King and courtiers were all hallucinations ? or were they? No one knows. Ludwig may have known that they did not exist, may have delighted only in pulling everyone's leg and in squeezing more money for his whims out of his Minister of "Finance than a sane king could ever have secured. Certain it is that he sometimes commanded lackeys to pick up objects which were not there, and, when they pretended to do so, caned them smartly. As a madman, King Ludwig demanded and obtained, among other whims: 1) lifesize clockwork peacocks made...
...Forum is the last magazine in the world to protest at honest difference with its authors' opinions, but it really must insist that the facts stated shall have some relation to the facts as they exist...
...ignorance of his surroundings. When those who set in judgment decide the fate of one of these members of 1931, the Advisor's report may settle the problem one way or the other. It is because of these cases--comparatively few, actually fairly numerous--that the Student Advisors' exist in that capacity. The inception of Freshman week, one of the achievements of Dean Greenough's administration, has given the Advisor's added reason for being. The undergraduates have an important part in the proceedings during those first few days. Their importance is enhanced, and their responsibility greatly increased...
...trusted of Bolsheviks, and at Moscow heads the Soviet Statistical Department. His attendant stenographers and private secretary were seen, last week, to be ladies of stern, middle age, their skirts at pre-War length, their manners suggesting not at all the imaginary "free-love" conditions pretended to exist in Russia. Second in authority was Comrade Eugen Varga, a Hungarian, one-time chief adviser to the ousted Soviet dictator of Hungary, fat, spiderlike Bela Kun (dictator...
...effective. . . . But there is no politi cal immorality in attempting to coerce a government by a general strike. [Barking his words] Governments exist to be coerced! . . . As for this bill?Hrr! ?it is a loud needle for the Communist gramophone. ... It will help the Communists to breed sedition, and gag a appeal to the better natures of everyone else...