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...refusal, Kemp (W. C. Jackson '22), the gardner, runs off, becomes fabulously rich, and by the time of the next annual house party at the Burroughs home, he has nearly succeeded in accomplishing the financial ruin of his former master. In the final act, however, Clive's insane but harmless interferances succeed in bringing back the lost fortune and in reuniting the separated lovers. Carr's blemished character is vindicated and the villainous gardner is carried away under the care of two policemen...
...enlightenment and learning extend even farther beyond the range of books than is the case at Harvard. The exhaustive inquiries into contemporary politics with constant delvings into the Classic or Medieval for parallel or contrast leave the unsophisticated American bewildered--he had thought it was to be a harmless tea-party with the conventional small-talk. All kinds of contacts will be made and a good many dissolved in the course of such a year but all leave their impression...
...matter of fact it wasn't so much Princeton that suffered from "This Side of Paradise" as it was the hitherto comparatively harmless flapper...
...cold-blooded hunting of a "spook", that appeals to one's sense of the ludicrous. Yet there is a certain reluctance, too, to see an old romantic supposition thus thrown overboard, and "ghaieties, and ghoulies, and things that go bump in the nicht" relegated to the sphere of the harmless. If this goes on much longer, Poe will be regarded as hopelessly mediaeval, and night-time will resolve itself into a mere prosaic absence of daylight, and we shall all be carrying our own outfits of ghost-catchers. The ghost will become as rare as the bison, and practically-minded...
History, we are told, has a habit of repeating itself. The conquered Prussians, by means of an apparently harmless system of military training, were able to put on the field at Waterloo a force of men that turned the tide against Napoleon; today, "The Reichstag has voted a law to establish universally courses in physical training, lasting from one to two years, for all young men under twenty-five. Under an inoffensive name it has in reality created a complete system of intensive military training." The comparison is obvious...