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...humor. It is the duty of youth to aspire mightily, oven at the risk of appearing ridiculous to those who admit themselves to be wise and sane. But it has no right to don the garments of old men and sit by the fireside smiling in a supercilious, sophisticated manner at the "other buffoons...
...Little Clown" Mary Miles Minter cleverly interprets her part as the circus girl who falls in love with a wealthy young Southerner. It is a surprise and disappointment to find that this story, written by Avery Hapwood, author of many-comedy successes, is treated in such an ordinary manner...
...Aristocrat", incog., arrived yesterday. The manner of its coming is reminiscent of the lurid red and yellow outbursts of two years ago, when periodical aped periodical, and newsboys screamed themselves hoarse. And like many of them it may come to an inglorious end. The twentieth century has neither the time nor the humor to listen to the echoes of dilettantism from the reign of Queen Anne. But that the editors should have realized before they started on their career as Spectators. At any rate, after all is said and done, these sporadic leaflets at least provide amusement for the college...
...that every well-educated person should have a general acquaintance with the masterpieces of the great literatures." It will apply to members of the present junior class at Harvard who are concentrating in any field of ancient or modern languages, and to all such men in succeeding classes. The manner in which the requirement is met is to be tested toward the end of the senior year in a written three-hour examination of which equal parts will be devoted to the Bible, Shakespeare, and each of the two selected authors...
Nowadays when one wants to be particularly nasty, he calls the object of his wrath a "socialist". "Bolshevik" and "communist" are other terms frequently used--all in a very vague but uniformly defamatory manner. Yet not so long ago, these words were in perfectly good repute; and though it might stamp one as a crank and impractical idealist, to be a socialist or communist was not held to be a stain on one's character. Just so the little word "liberal" has come to "cover a multitude of sins", this time as a camouflage for less respected designations. Properly speaking...