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...normal has frequently been drawn from the fact that prices have reverted to their former level after previous periods of currency inflation in the early and middle nineteenth century. The Harvard Committee, however, cannot accept this conclusion, for it cannot find that the governing conditions exist today which brought about lower price levels in the past...
...Revere Beach, a Luna Park, a Coney Island, all rolled in one and open the year 'round at that, exist unnoticed in the massive shadow of Langdell Hall. Condensed into one room is the first amusement park in America...
Professor Richard Burton is quite right in the stand he takes against "the half-baked sophistication, juvenile cynicism, indifference," among Eastern students, as the Times puts it, if these things exist in the degree that he thinks they do and they seem to, not only among some undergraduates but among men long out of college who are so devilishly clever that they make on turn with relief to Sanford and Merton. The trouble with these superior, people is that out of the bowels of their own cleverness they spin a web in which hangs nothing but dreary, dessicated warnings...
...Wells meaning is not that history has ceased to exist, but that it has grown too large. Its picturesqueness and its glamour have been taken over to the province of the novelist. Both are essential just as the warp and the woof in the weaving of a carpet...
...Again, the paper declared that--I quote its own culture word--the Harvard "flapper fans and road house roues" were anxious about the scholastic superiority of the Jews. I have no personal friends and few acquaintances who could aspire to the above complimentary description, but if any such exist they probably do not spend their time figuring out the alarming change in the percentage of Phi Beta Kappa membership...