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...Kuche, and Kirche, in the good old German sense, was the proper province of female aspiration, and any attempt to educate them beyond the three K's was foolish and dangerous. The result of Mr. See's bull was to increase the endowment funds of Adelphi College (the specific object of his wrath) and to delight the many thousand intelligent Americans of both sexes who love to catch a Babbitt out of bounds...
Ancient pagans found the human body so interesting and puzzling that they made of it an object of worship; modern pagans like Walt Whitman claim that such an attitude is most natural. At all events, however carefully scientists have recorded facts about the body, when someone claims for it a new and more wonderful function, all known facts are brushed aside in the mad rush of unreasoning worship...
...designs for each ticket will be to keeping with its particular purpose. The Memorial tickets, for example, will in general have on them some design of Memorial Hall, and the Yard tickets some familiar object, such as a well-known gate, associated with the Yard...
...conferences, which may be arranged merely by signing a blue-book, with some of the foremost men in the various professions. They will be informal, and designed to allow the experts to find the particular problem of each student, and advise him accordingly. Contact with these leaders, whose sole object is to guide men to the most congenial outlets for their individual talents, may well save years of undirected groping. The whole effort is being made to help men get started in work they will always enjoy to prevent the wastage and the bitterness which result from a misguided...
...coach at Columbia by Percy D. Haughton, and the success of his system under Robert T. Fisher at Harvard, leads one to wonder what would happen if a Fisher-coached team met a Haughton-coached team. It is like trying to conceive of an irresistible force meeting an immovable object. The mind has visions of a scoreless game and darkness closing down on the field. In desperation the two coaches rush out and advise their respective teams. Mr. Haughton whispers to the quarterback; a most remarkable play is carried through, except that the pigskin comes to rest exactly where...