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According to the New York World, however, there must exist a great multitude of Babbitts, for it says editorially that all who attended the great beauty contest last week at Madison Square Garden were such. Even the master mind of the carnival was a Babbitt, a manufacturer of plastic mud for the complexion. And it goes without saying that Mr. Valentino, who bestowed the golden apple upon the fairest, was under his role of Paris only a Babbitt. What the World failed to note was that the sun did not rise out of the west, nor the moon revolve...
...radio operator in the U. S. Navy led to a discovery which will vastly shorten the process of manufacturing experts in wireless telegraphy. While the code and its translation were coming through the ether, the brain cells of the sleeping man, in a state of plastic receptivity, were absorbing the meaning of the dots and dashes and forming new associations. On waking, he was able to repeat accurately everything he had received in sleep. Psychologists say that such results are feasible because of the automatic, repetitive nature of the material conveyed to the dormant brain...
...benefit the soul. Does Sunday chapel do this?" "Only a reactionary groups of men, pettishly tyrannic, can leave such an incubus saddled upon a university." Under the suggested change in the cut system "the undergraduate would understand that he is at college to learn something, not to expose his plastic self to the mould of a gigantic stamping machine...
...Simonson. '09 will speak at the 47 Workshop meeting tomorrow night at 8 o'clock in Sever 11. His subject will be "The Plastic Stage and Recent Stage Design". All members of the University and Radcliffe are cordially invited...
...rebellious youth and give him a degree of pleasure which henceforth makes him vaguely dissatisfied with anything less. After all, the possession of a fund of associations does a great deal to make life pleasant; it is for their wealth of associations that good books are valuable. In the plastic days of youth, a three months sentence to reading has a good chance of becoming a "lifer...