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Dean Sperry reviews all the other opinions of Wordsworth's dismal anti-climax, giving in every case the devil his due and showing what facts each ignores. His own belief is, that Wordsworth in embracing the sensationalist psychology from Hartly, out of Locke and Hume, was pursuing a course detrimental to the continuation and enhancement of his poetic powers and the Dean gives his reasons lucidly and even persuasively...
Eddie Casey's eleven gave the boys from Providence their troubles on the field Saturday, but it was all an anti-climax after the troubles which had threatened to whiten Tuss McLaughry's hair that noon...
...imperial pronunciamento of the Fascist Grand Council of Italy has thrown another bomb at the decrepit League of Nations. The League is to be bullied into reform or else the delegation of Italy as well as that of Germany and Japan will be missing from Geneva. Coming as an anti-climax to the recent flood of nationalistic out-bursts, Italy's cry seems too obviously a bid to be heard, a youngish boast of a rising power henceforth to be reckoned with by the other big powers. But reform of the League of Nations' covenant is and has been...
...recent Harvard riot which was reported by Moscow newspapers as caused by hunger for food, and which the San Francisco newspapers attributed to hunger for companionship of Radcliffe belles was brought to a splendid anti-climax in court yesterday morning. Policemen under oath were a bit more honest than the press in admitting that Harvard students had been "grabbed at random" and arrested "without any idea of what they might have been guilty...
Coming, however, as they do in the fall of the last year in college these tests do not realize their purpose. Instead of providing a background they cap the scene with an anti-climax. They are too late...