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...Premature announcements to the contrary, the $500,000 U. S. Knights of Columbus playgrounds for children in Rome were not reopened last week. In vain Boston's Edward L. Hearn, key Knight of Columbus in Rome, repeated his attempts to persuade the U. S. Embassy to protest...
...favorite fiction writers, while in 1921 Jeffrey Farnol, O. Henry and Booth Tarkington best held his attention. He drinks and smokes as he used to, enjoys football to watch and tennis to play, but whereas ten years ago he valued a college letter more than a Phi Beta Kappa key, that choice is now reversed by a vote of 266 to 98. Furthermore, all but a small minority of the class has visited a night club in New York, a point which ten years ago apparently did not occur to the questionnaire makers...
...these answers seem to hear out the contention that the modern undergraduate is a pretty sophisticated young man and at the same time perhaps a bit more serious in his studies--if we may accept the yearning for a Phi Bta Kappa key as genuine--other votes would indicate that he has changed little. We refer to his attitude, of all things, toward poetry. In 1921 his favorite poets were Kipling, Tennyson and Browning; in 1931 they are Browning, Kipling and Tennyson. Ten years ago he voted "If" his favorite poem, followed by Gray's "Elegy"; today he does...
...intervals that higher inconsistency which is popularly conceded to poets. The conventionality of his prosaic life is as unconventional as "poetic rapture" would be in the pecadilloes of George Babbitt. In an attempt of fit Wordsworth into the poetic niche of the normally abnormal. Professor Read finds in the key to the true Wordsworth, the well of his poetic emotion. Professor Herford, on the other hand, looks upon the life of the poet with the cold, green eye of pedantic scholarship. He manages to maintain his equilibrium as far as Wordsworth's sex life is concerned, but his contributions...
...gratifying. Activity was everywhere. Bottles were crashing into the street, "Ten Cents a Dance" was being sung from a room in Randolph in a voice which betokened the existence of something more substantial than the mere joy of existence, while one lone scholar was dangling a Phi Beta Kappa key out of the window while the read his notes on Semitic one squared hf. The Vagabond's head began to whirl. Such industry was not known in his days at college. He wondered what he should advice for those who were affected in the same way that...