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...contempt the nation's money, lust, and laud to the point of idolization the noble principles and the high ideals of Europe. It is always easy to find the commonplace in that which a man knows, and to see in that which he does not know glamor and super-material beauty. Burdened by his own provincialism, which he considers cosmopolitan breadth, the highly (?) educated--in the bookish sense,--young man of America is fond of talking in an impassioned way of the infinitely superior knowledge and the supremely finer moral sense of all Europe. Any attempt to reply to such...
America can be rightly proud of the efficiency and the super-imminent services rendered by the American ambulance at the front. The American ambulance corps has now in its daily use and service 170 automobiles on the French front, and 225 are counted on in the near future. In the Paris sector these automobiles carry the wounded on the arrival of trains, from the trains to the various hospitals. They comprise 50 automobile ambulances, with a personnel exclusively composed of American young men in khaki uniforms. It is an imposing spectacle to see a train of 25 of these automobile...
Perhaps no one would contend that the entertainment provided at the Freshman smokers should be of a super-refined character, but I am sure that more than one man felt that the bounds of common decency were trespassed by a part of the entertainment of last Thursday evening. I refer to the performance of four negro comedians, who, responding to applause elicited by a selection somewhat more grotesque than such performers commonly use, appeared on the stage dressed in pseudo-military uniforms, carrying our national flag, and singing a song certainly not unpatriotic in sentiment but robbed of any patriotic...
...Graduate School of Princeton University has decided to admit only students who have been "honor men" in college. The Philadelphia Press explains that the proposal is to train a class of "super-scholars." The aptness of this term may be questioned, as well as the value of the new requirement. Most of those who go to the better graduate schools now are men who have been distinctly above the average in scholarly rank as undergraduates; it is a genuine intellectual interest which has led to their desire to do further scholarly work. Moreover, honor standards vary so greatly that injustice...
...following members of the University have been selected to act as super-numeraries in the plays: herdsmen, R. Horween '18, P. A. Means '16, and E. F. Woodruff '16; executioners, A. L. G. Jensen '17, L. D. Le Fevre '18, D. L. Moody '18, W. W. Sanders '17, J. F. Seal '17, W. W. Spencer '18, and A. L. Whitman '18; soldiers, H. L. Dayton '17, W. Edgar '16, L. B. Everitt '17, N. Fell '17, H. W. Flagg '16, A. C. Gilligan '18, E. F. Henderson '18, C. A. Herter '15, R. C. Kelley '17, R. V. Kleinschmidt...