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North American attention is seldom focused on the passing trials of our neighbors to the south. Now, however, there appears to have emerged a movement of some consequence, Pan Latinism. It hints at the union of South and Central American countries as well as brotherly affiliation with their European kin in Spain, Italy and Portugal...
...first-rate appreciator of men. In his power he was called "the power behind the power behind the throne." In 1911 he refused renomination to the Senate to work on reforms of the U. S. financial system. Four years later he died. Now his memory seldom is mentioned except as his name is sounded when some newspaper refers to the Payne-Aldrich Tariff...
...Jesus? How tall was He? How sturdy or frail? Painters and sculptors have clouded over their ignorance by emphasizing His face, putting therein all the passion and pity or suffering within their abilities. His body they have made secondary, usually slim, occasionally even pudgy, sometimes tall, seldom short, according to the current ideas of ascetic beauty...
...worry stray shutters and growl is cynicism--but, at all events, indignation does leap high within him--and he worries through college cramp. Yet beyond the confines of Cambridge where all is sunshine and examinations are myths there exists a phenomenon of which the disgruntled undergraduate is too seldom aware. This phenomenon might be called the profusion of mediocrity in contemporary art. It is caused by half ideated writing, silliness and cheapness--none of which, the undergraduate must admit characterizes the obscure texts--and Cambridge weather is a thing unique...
...that senility in the lbis sets in at an age even earlier than in humans. It is not that we lack the most profound respect for the Lampoon tradition, but it would seem that the lean years have arrived in the purlieus of Mount Auburn and Plympton Streets, for seldom have we previously been favored with such a monumental display of gratuitous imbecility, such wholesale vulgarity of the common or garden variety, or such lamentable paucity of wit and artistry as is represented by this issue. The lbis has that bilious and mangy appearance that we hear was characteristic...