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...Leonardo da Vinci, Lorenzo dei Medici, Fra Filippo Lippi, Sandro Botticelli and all manner of other notables of renaissance Florence. It is all very ingenious and very amusing. But the joke is run into the ground. All these grotesque masqueraders begin to take themselves seriously. You think you were wrong about the fancy dress. Casting sidelong glances about the garden of Lorenzo, you nervously seek the uniformed attendant. At any moment, you feel, some ardent damsel may rush on shouting: "I'm an egg! Watch me scramble...
...sees a new danger every week. Each one has a new bright idea for building battleships or something every fortnight. Practically every one is the spokesman of some clique in the General Staff. Before the war, during the war, and after the war, they were most of them wrong most of the time. In all of literature there would be no more melancholy reading than the collected prophecies, warnings and advice of the journalistic military experts...
...American idea of education is all wrong, as I and Upton Sinclair have believed from the first. Not being a tame conformist, I have arrived two weeks behind the herd to prove my theory at this university of monuments and mudholes here in Cambridge...
...typographical error the CRIMSON announced yesterday that upperclassmen in History 1 would be required to attend the Friday meeting, at which the selection of a field of concentration will be discussed. The announcement was wrong and upperclassmen will not be required to attend on that...
...importance, it would be a fascinating diversion for educated men. But it happens to be a study of the greatest importance. We live in a world which is mostly out of sight, so far as a particular individual is concerned, and largely out of mind, except when things go wrong. It easily gets beyond control. The methods by which it may be, or at least has been, controlled, and by which the power necessary to control it may be made to serve instead of exploiting mankind, form the substance of the science of government...