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...reminded that politics bear little relation to scholarship, that the men who urge it are seldom scholars, and that the people on whom they depend are much less so. Political agitation, manoeuvering, and conviction depend largely upon impression. Sometimes in the higher reaches of legislative or executive activity, a particular politician acquires personal prestige enough to translate a careful program into law. But in such things as managing a national convention, one must look out for the careless prejudices of the nation at large...
Significance. A glance at these questions reveals that man knows less of making peace than anything else. The merest numskull can shout a war cry, fire a blunderbuss. The language of peace, seldom heard, must be studied and conned over before disarmament can even be discussed...
Undergraduate papers fall into two groups: the bulletin boards and the journals of opinion. The bulletin boards are harmless sheets packed full of college gossip. Criticism of the University is seldom ventured. The editorials exhort the students to Back the Team, warn freshmen of the evil consequences of Walking on the Grass, and advise the use of Better English...
...hold that argument that the problems facing a young graduate upon entering a profession or business have become increasingly complicated and difficult and that consequently the preparation must become increasingly enlightening. There is also the probability, which we cannot pass over without mention, that the old outlook which seldom extended beyond the family or small community has now enlarged to the nation and world it seems the natural consequence of independent thinking in the college community and beyond the single university unit as evidenced by the National Student Federation, that more and more young graduates will enter national and international...
Malamute Saloon, brought to fame by Rhymster Robert W. Service, still functions tamely; that igloos are seldom built of snow, but usually of driftwood and turfs; that William T. Lopp, onetime U. S. education chief for Alaska, got the Eskimos started in the reindeer industry, of which Carl Lomen is king; that there is said to be a mountain of jade in the wild hinterland; that Eskimo seamstresses wear their teeth to the gums chewing deerhide into shape; that whaling parties will travel afoot 30 miles out on the unevenly frozen ocean hunting for open leads to watch...