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...obtainment of an education at Dartmouth is the faculty. Most of its members are teaching because it would be impossible for them to succeed at any other trade". It is to be regretted that these particular Juniuses have found it necessary to become personal, to strike at particular sage heads about the faculty table...
...Arthur Conan Doyle: " When interviewed in regard to my proposed trip to America, I remarked that Americans are too interested in table-tipping and other material phenomena and not in the real mes- sage of spiritualism...
...Williams, the donor of the prize, is a prominent lawyer and city planner. He is the author of the New York city planning law, and has recently taken part in the legal survey for the Plan of New York and its Environs sponsored by the Russell Sage Foundation...
...Mixed metaphors," a sage declares, "are defensible as long as they show fertility rather than poverty of imagination." No doubt W. L. Geroge is a genius; this masterpiece is from one of his novels; "The cloud that tried to stab their happiness was only a false rumor whose bitter taste could not shatter the radiance nor dim the effervescence of their...
...Some sage has discovered that the hair on the top of the head has nothing to do with the brains inside. At least, such is the implication of a recent bit of news from Columbia. Of course it has to do with the psychological tests. A large group of graduates, it appears, gathered for the Alumni Day exercises, fell into a discussion as to whether or not their brains were as sharp as those of the present Freshmen: and to settle the question, playfully decided to submit themselves to the curious quiz that makes or mars a mentality. The deed...