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...Venus à la Mode" depicts a committee at work with tape measures and other engineers' paraphernalia measuring the head, arms, bust, waist, legs of a young miss for the spiritual title of "Miss New York," or Miss Philadelphia," it is not certain which...
...these men. So he finds little health in the so-called Chicago realists of today. He sees their renowned leader, Theodore Dreiser, swallowing the drab scene "with a vast hippopotamus yawn"; engulfing, nothing more: no digestion or creation. Philosopher John Dewey he finds serviceable but juiceless, with a mode of expression "as depressing as a subway ride." William James at least had a style, the lack of which suggests an organic failing in his disciple. Philosopher Santayana preserves a sense of beauty, but is at once exotic and provincial...
...devilish curiosity, and a detailed information on subjects ranging from to quote examples from the Transcript Wagner to "four important breeds of dairy cattle." The dilettantes will accordingly, remain to blush unseen, for the last requirement of victory is a college education. Ignorance is no longer a la mode...
...Before man was, or fish or birds or living things were, the postal service existed. . . . Before there was a mode of writing, before there were nations or kings or governments, there were messengers bearing news. "LET THERE BE LIGHT" was the first message to sweep across the face of the earth, according to the book of Genesis; and God, Himself, was the delivering Postman, and for six days God created and delivered messages to the earth, and He, on the seventh day, rested." Thus began the first of many rhapsodies, conceived by U. S. Postmaster W. J. O'Callaghan...
Resources and associations of university life offer just such a retreat. The undergraduate is provided not only with an education, but with a mode of life, leisurely, tranquil, suitable to study and quiet thought. The men who were steeped in the beauties of the peaceful streams and meadows around Oxford or Cambridge, who passed long, quiet years in the cool courts and gardens of the colleges, who found congenial friends and tutors, read much classical and modern literature and exchanged ideas with stimulating minds, naturally here afterward the mark of those years...