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...where a word in the right ear will net a hundred thousand dollars or a new gymnasium." Intellectual "safety" was defined: "He must be devoid of all purely rational principles and ideas of any sort . . . cannot be a Roman Catholic, a Quaker, a Holy Roller. . . . Above all, he should understand how to befog issues wherein ideas perhaps lurk dangerously by raising and keeping raised a perfect dust storm of issues that really do not matter...
...since to know the whole oak one must be acquainted with the acorn, so, to understand the later literary works of the eighteenth century one must have at least an outlook over the earlier movements. Professor Howard in his course German 6, is going to speak on these earlier literary movements of the eighteenth century this morning at 11 o'clock, and any who desire may at that hour see one in the guise of a vagabond on his way to the Germanic Museum...
...plans with all the shrewdness you would expect-possibly with even more. I decided to show my beloved that I was human, almost at least, and that like a human being I might make a mistake. S I said Boston College would be beaten for the purpose--but you understand. Boston College Beaten. You can see how ridiculous that is. And "Cav", I call him "Cav", and I such buddies too. But what did I accomplish, besides making poor "Cav" cry his eyes out? Nothing, or even less. For when I went to the girl, pardon the sentiment...
...Straton should be made to understand that the guiding light of the American Mercury is not good-hearted and that he makes his living by being anything but good-hearted Rob him of his cynicism, his black arts, and one robs him of his daily bread. Were he of a Pollyannie nature his writings would not be accepted as holy scripture by numerous intellectuals, both young and old, scattered over the countryside. When one wants sweetness and light there are other sources; but advocates of the devil who can amuse and corrupt as well as Mr. Mencken...
...member of another college can understand quite adequately those benefits. Yet one may comprehend in some fashion just what such men as Dr. Tucker did for the educational institutions of the country as a whole. Realizing the need of an elective system, for the teaching of natural science, history, philosophy, an understanding, above all, of the maral value of liberty, these pioneeers in American education strove to create educational institutions equipped to fit the American youth for his life as an American citizen. Nor can all the petty, often diverse disquisitions of later day men upon the futility of such...