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...uncock against Army. Whether it was the rain, or just a bad case of stage fright doesn't matter now-there is very little use in crying over the 32 points cropped by the Army mule from Cambridge turf last Saturday. The important question is whether or not this latent Crimson strength is fact or myth...
Wednesday evening at 7.30 o'clock the first Sophomore competition for the editorial board will be thrown open to all members of the Class of 1939 who have any spark of latent interest in writing or in the University as a whole. The competition will last eight weeks or until the candidate has satisfied the present editorial writers of his ability; that is, if a candidate hands in a sufficient amount of good material in three weeks, he will be taken on the board instead of having to compete for the full eight...
...Bali and Angkor Author Gorer's forthright denunciations of some of the abuses of Far Eastern Imperialism make spirited reading. But his latent mysticism, barely called into being in Africa, flowered under the influence of the gentle Balinese, the witches of Java, the monstrous ruins of Angkor Wat. Hence the book is less one of description of far places than an exposition of the author's theories of the nature of the mystical experience, its social and spiritual significance...
...Landon has been an able Governor of Kansas. Honestly provincial, he is devouring stiff economic and social treatises, trying hard to push his mental horizon beyond Kansas plains. Of his capacity to fill the White House chair, his friend William Allen White devoutly declares: "If a man has any latent subconscious powers they are aroused by the overwhelming responsibility. ... I am inclined to believe that Landon would rise to it. I don't know. No man knows. I don't think he knows...
...with the fluid tenets of the Theosophical Society which, founded in Manhattan in 1875 by Mme Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, aimed to form "a nucleus of the universal brotherhood of humanity." encourage the study of comparative religion and philosophy, investigate "the unexplained laws of nature [including reincarnation] and the powers latent in man." 3) Strictly, the land on which Krishnamurti spoke was held until 1929 by an affiliate of the Society, is now held by a nominal corporation of three Krishnamurti associates. 4) "Huts" are what Krishnamurti calls both the little houses he inhabits near Ojai. 5) Although Krishnamurti...