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...beginning with a handsome, athletic Greek aristocrat who, because of his broad shoulders was called Plato (427-347 B. C.). During populist chaos in Athens, Plato joined the "thinking games" of a homely old idler, Socrates. After the latter had been obliged to swallow hemlock, the pupil proposed exchanging mob government for a Republic ruled by its best intellects. He conceived absolute values for Good, Justice and similar abstractions, a realm of ideals of which ordinary life was but the dim shadow. Aristotle (384-322 B. C.), son of a physician at the court of King Amyntas in rugged Macedon...
...adjutant rushed to the telephone. Too late. Prince Max had already announced at Berlin on his own responsibility the abdication of Wilhelm II both as Emperor and King. Completely terrified by the mob, Prince Max officially turned over the Imperial Chancellorship to onetime saddlemaker Ebert, leader of the Social Democratic Party, subsequently elected 1st President of the Reich...
...Arica, General Lassiter quietly wound up the affairs of the U. S.-chairmaned Chile-Peruvian plebiscitary commission (TIME, Nov. 26, 1923 et seq.). He was hissed and booed by a Chilean mob. The Chilean member of the Commission, Señor Augustin R. Edwards, refused to attend its last session. The Chilean police refused to open the Commission hall. General Lassiter made use of a nearby office. Finally he embarked with his staff aboard the U. S. battleship Galveston, prepared to sail...
Furthermore. Prince and Princess set out into New Jersey for commencement at Upsala (Lutheran) College, then to Princeton. Returning to Manhattan, they went directly to the Metropolitan Opera House through a mob of several thousand street-peepers; from the J. P. Morgan box heard a concert by the American Union of Swedish Singers (58 male choruses from 50 U. S. cities), which later was variously acclaimed by the critics...
...training quarters would be just what it should be, only "a voicing of support and approval both necessary and encouraging to a Harvard crew in a difficult situation" seems to have been justified and more. There was nothing of the synthetic, formal nature present that makes the type of mob psychology usually prevalent in such affairs a doubtful manner of approaching athletic contests whether of great or small importance in the eyes of professional sport followers. Given an opportunity through the advertising potentialities of a rather informally constructed band the College saw fit to encourage certain undergraduates who, representing...