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...declared that letters should be an avocation, not a vocation. Those of us who are receiving training in literature are merely being trained for a pleasant avocation; for the author, unless he writes the "book of the hour", cannot make his living by writing. The case is well set forth by Mr. Hergesheimer: the successful novel, excluding best sellers and failures, earns for its author a maximum of $4,000. Few writers, even at their best, are capable of publishing more than one complete novel a year; yet $4,000 is a yearly income even less than that...
...much about "Nietche" as he thinks he does. And all this on the margins of a book on "Moral Economy"! In a history book, a former reader has cleverly transposed the letters of the name "Kaiser Max", and shifted the order, so that the passage reads: "Max Keezer went forth to battle...
...Junior Class must be handed in to F. T. Baldwin '24 at Randolph 52 before 5.30 o'clock today. These petitions must be signed by thirty-five members of the Class of 1924. No petitions for further nominations have been handed in so far, and if none are forth-coming by 5.30 o'clock, the present officers of the class who constitute a nomination and election committee will meet tonight and make one further nomination for each office...
...ancient Egyptian symbol for infinity was a serpent holding his tall in his mouth. It now transpires that the Egyptians had a much better symbol than ours of to-day, which is the complicated and arbitrary figure 8 inverted. For Einstein, and a colleague who comes forth as a second enemy of common sense, Dr. Weyl, have reached the conclusion that infinity is nothing more than a serpent with his tall in his mouth-merely an infinite circle...
...Freshman is merely bored, the Sophomore is bored but striving for originality, the Junior is distinctly not bored, but suffering from a species of nightmare--the dark before the dawn. At last the Sleeper awakens and substituting the lambskin for the pigskin goes forth to see what...