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...date of the publication of Hudibras or the strict interpretation of the categorical imperative are not likely to increase the sales of Mex Pete, or fire insurance policies. And the mythical average graduate probably has no more definite idea of such details than his stenographer, if he has one. As numerous others have remarked previously, college is not for learning facts but for learning how to think and how to judge values and make decisions. It is the pale ghost of that training which prompts the glowing epistles from "State Street" and the promising offers at the Employment Office...
...case of repeal before him, claimed to represent a more or less mythical four million voters, and it is becoming more and more apparent that in the East, especially in the cities among the laboring classes and the upper classes, there is a strong current running toward a less strict interpretation of the Eighteenth Amendment. The governor's attitude is this current crystallized but as to the South and the Middle West time has yet to show...
Edward of Wales: " In strict incognito I attended the Alhambra Music Hall at Lille, France. The orchestra struck up God Save the King-but I wasn't noticed. The honor was for the British Consul, also present...
...story is a pretty strict adaptation of the novel of the same name by Emerson Hough, and is what advertisers love to call red-blooded. The romantic part of the story deals with Molly Wingate, whose parents are determined that she will marry the unattractive Sam Woodhull, but who has decided in her own mind that she much prefers the more heroic and less blustering Will Banion. Therefore the major characters have still other worries all the way out from Westport Landing to Oregon than Indians, starvation, freezing, floods, and homesickness. The villain as usual spends his time trying...
...only one who has regretted this condition. Christopher Morley, writing in the Yale News some months ago, seriously questioned the value of certain college activities. In last year's senior questionnaires, several members of the class came to much the same conclusion; while other urged a strict limitation of outside interests, under official supervision...