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...little more than accounts of riot, some destruction of property, and the death of one American. The Transcript, after calling attention to Cantonese "insolence" wonders why the U. S. warships have not used their guns on the Nationalists before. All this flaming and rather tawdry blustering is not only shallow but dangerous as well if it is communicated to a State Department which is not particularly noted for solid good sense under the administration of Mr. Kellogg...
Ludwig van Beethoven really needs very little apology for having composed the "Missa Solemnis" and the denial of its spiritual inspiration smacks of more shallow pretext and sophistry...
Napoleona went on exhibition last week at the Museum of French Art in Manhattan. Maudlin sentimentalizers sniffled; shallow women giggled, pointed. In a glass case they saw something looking like a maltreated strip of buckskin shoelace or a shriveled eel. It was a mummified tendon taken from Napoleon's body at the postmortem. Then there were locks of Napoleon's hair, his white breeches, a flounce of Alengon lace from Marie Louise's wedding dress, a baby dress worn by L'Aiglon (Napoleon's only legitimate child), a death mask of Napoleon cast in bronze...
This is no occasion, indeed, for smug and shallow indifference. The omission of Cambridge is a telling criticism. A chastened humility and a pontent reformation are called for. The influence of such an advertisement on the college aspirations of prepratory school graduates need hardly be mentioned. The question is more vital even than that. It is one that endangers the high fame and eminence of Harvard University. There can be but one answer...
...student conference at Chicago this week called to consider world peace is another in a long series of such conferences which have taken place with growing frequency since 1920. They are not to be dismissed by the refusal of the shallow or the cynical to discriminate between the socially minded man and the unadjusted crank who, like Calvin, well deserves the epithet of accusative ease...