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...reference to Gabriele D'Annunzio. In this perennial discourse, Pedagog Perry tells his students that once, while lying ill in Europe, he undertook to read all of the stormy Italian poet's work. He concludes: "At the end of which time, gentlemen, I came to the decision that D'Annunxio has a dirty mind." Harvardmen were sorry to hear, last week, that Pedagog Perry was resigning his chair to become an Emeritus Professor, having served the University well for 23 years...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Pedagog Perry | 1/25/1930 | See Source »

...such dependence on the parental dictum was not the product of a virgin mind. The man who toys each day with pet lions must receive the credit. Surely it is time for him to outrival the poetry of D'Annunxio with a treatise on eugenics. The glory that was Garibaldt learned a thing or two in Brooklyn. Let Italy now return her national debt in kind. Let the Duce take the flower of our American girlhood: Mr. Ziegfield has had his turn...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DUCES WILD | 10/28/1925 | See Source »

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