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...France--c'est un pays mechant!" This, or its modern equivalent in English, was the decision in a recent court order which forbade an Ohio publisher to circulate an edition of Rabelais. Certain other books by prominent French authors, classics of French literature, have been suppressed elsewhere in this country. These books have withstood the criticism of centuries, have been included in all the great libraries of the world, and have been listed among the best products in any literature. We are still censoring them, and our great-great-aunts, the mid-victorian, ladies who dressed the piano's "limbs...
...against this and other selective-process programmes of college Presidents it is agreeable to cite the objections of Acting Provost Penniman of the University of Pennsylvania to the "un-American policy", of adopting "a method of selecting candidates which in any way violates the principles laid down in the Declaration of Independence or the rights of American citizens as guaranteed by the Constitution". It is a serious thing, as he says, "to shut the door in the face of the eager, aspiring, earnest youth who has set his heart on coming to college...
...Europe,--has been treated most irregularly by Mustapha Kemal Pasha, who from all indications is doing his best to re-carve the boundaries of the Near East to suit his Angora. In the meantime the strong-arm squad,--the Greeks under a recently recrowned and still more recently un-crowned Constantine,--undertook to enforce the provisions of the treaty, feeling the inheritance of Alexander lay within their reach, as legitimate recompense for their efforts in the cause of peace. Severely repulsed, in a way that would have caused Alexander to turn in his grave, by the now fully roused Kemalists...
Shakspere, with a rating of 22.4, heads the list, while Billy Sunday with --21.8 ends it, Classical writers placed very high with three among the first fifteen. But were the zeros of "un-classicized critics discounted they would place still higher; Aeschylus, for example, now nineteenth would then stand fourth. The cases of tied popularity are enlightening. Dr. Johnson broke the tape with Krazy Kat; St. Augustine, Lenin, and Douglas Fairbanks were triple-tied: Flo Ziegfeld and Frederic the Great matched; and Geraldine Farrar and Henry Ford mated...
...available only to the government, so that they cannot be used by the insurgents. Heretofore, the only way of dispersing armed bands of strikers has been by the use of troops, and in the pitched battle which invariably ensued numbers of the soldiers had to be killed,--an un- necessary bloodshed. Now when a commando is discovered, an airplane can drop bombs on it without endangering the life of anyone except the strikers. Of course, such a method could not be used in a strike in a city, but for a disturbance such as this in South Africa it seems...