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...Flay" Denounced. "If there is any gratitude in the newspaper profession for the interest we are taking in their work, I wish that they would assassinate the terms rap, assail, attack and flay from news stories and headlines. Every newspaper I read is guilty of the use of these overused words, and I would even suggest the award of a Pulitzer prize for the newspaper man who devises substitutes for these pugnacious words" - Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler, President of Columbia University...
President Keppel of the Carnegie Foundation took occasion to rap the regents of the University of Wisconsin for turning down an offer of a $600,000 endowed medical school from the Rockefeller Foundation (TIME, Aug. 17, Oct. 26). The regents' reason was fear of domination by the donor, and their resolution included all incorporated foundations. Said President Keppel: "It is hard to conceive that a fair-minded man or woman should fail to realize that the broadly co-operative character of these operations offers the most effective safeguard, if safeguard were needed, against any employment of these trust funds...
...President permitted himself to be quoted indirectly as sympathizing with M. Edouard Herriot, fallen Premier of France. French papers promptly attempted to rap his knuckles...
...recent major achievements, ranging all the way from the establishment of the general examination and the tutorial system to the application of a rational plan of budgeting, would not make nearly as lively reading for the uninformed and the half-informed as a news story headed "Grads Rap Harvard for Baker Loss." If the alumni will ony look into the facts before throwing brickbats, if they will only make their proposals logical, good-humored, and constructive the present criticism will be positively helpful rather than harmful. Already, it is bearing fruit in the insistence of the Overseers Committee on English...
...Treasure Island. Not Stevenson, but Smith has written itmple story of an undermanned ship and a force gang. It was the daring plan of his great uncle, the cold, the cool, the calculating Murray, on land the inspired follower of King James, at sea the terrible pirate, Captain Rip-Rap. With young Ormerod is taken his redoubtable friend the Dutchman Peter Corlaer, a veritable Lionel Strongfort for bodily prowess. With them also goes the red-haired boy Darby to whom the taste of piracy is sweet. At sea, they join Murray's company in two ships. One of them...