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...each went to Paul L. Franken '40 of Winthrop House, for a discussion of "The New England Whig"; Harrie Lewis '40 of Lowell House, for "Destiny and Dishonor: An Essay on Helen Hunt Jackson and Indian Affairs"; and T. L. Wolford '41 of Adams House, author of "Pilgrimage to Utopia: E. L. Godkin...
Last week there was thunder on the right. Mr. Glenn Frank released his long-germinating Republican battle-chart for the scrutiny and approval of good anti-New Dealers everywhere. Like all well-written platforms, it makes pleasant reading, paints an inspiring Utopia, but makes little sense without an analysis of the economic and social skeleton that supports it. Under such a probe, Mr. Frank's essay shows up as something far different from the trumpet call to "the good life" that it purports...
...around a tract of land which he had bought in northeastern Tennessee, Utopia-hunting Tom Hughes founded a colony. Invited to join were the younger sons of English gentlemen, who were barred by tradition from inheritance, by custom from working for their living. The colony was named Rugby after Tom Hughes's old school, and more than 1,000 younger sons saw an opportunity, came from England to the U. S., where it was no shame to work...
There, he settled down to a judgeship, and never went back to Utopia...
...three years after its founder deserted, the Tennessee Utopia lasted. Then typhoid fever, the rigors of manual labor, and an alien soil thinned the colonists' ranks. Only a handful stayed, and Rugby crumbled away into sleepy decadence while the Tennessee pines sprouted on the cricket field, hid the little church...