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There would be little progress without a group of radicals to speed up diehard conservatives and reactionaries. Washington and Lincoln were more radical than any present-day student has the brains to be; half the good writers are radical, and nine-tenths of the good professors. If the U.C. editors want to pick on liberals, they can find a long list of them...
Horsey folk in the East watched closely for hints of what competition to expect next week in Manhattan's "Golden Jubilee" National, where the cream of the Chicago entries were to perform. As at all present-day shows, the most spectacular performance at Chicago was the internal tional military jumping...
...intellectual touch was an imaginary interview with Mark Hanna by Thomas Beer, making the point that Hanna would have thought present-day Capitalists were weaklings to go sniveling to the Government about their fortunes. In his day strong men "hunted fortunes as if they were bears. . . . We didn't whistle-and then whine to 'em. ... An individualism that squalls for protection from its own mistakes ain't even as respectable as one that bought votes and slugged its way into power with a gun in its hand...
...seemingly seven refulgent copies of the Adelon, or Liberty Hall, or the Bastille, are not sufficient to top the pyramid of reading periods and tutorial systems and courses in aerial photography. The necessity for further reform in the tutorial system indicates that the product, the graduate, of the present-day college is far from satisfactory...
...England Model League of Nations. The organization, in which 31 New England colleges are now participating members, was founded in 1927 to stimulate interest in the procedure and activity of the League of Nations at Geneva and to acquaint undergraduates interested in international affairs with the difficulties involved in present-day diplomacy...