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MAMMONART?Upton Sinclair?Published by himself ($2.00). Homer was a hanger-on, Pindar a pressagent, Æschylus a 100% Athenian, Raphael a pampered pet of popes. Dryden was a "bedroom" playwright, Coleridge a reactionary sensualist, Balzac a predatory careerist...
...growing prominence of Latin athletes Heywood Broun envisions the approaching displacement of the Spartan ideal of ascetic preparation by an Athenian regime of unrestrained living and joyous unconcern. The gloomy "Nos" and "Do nots" of Calvinistic coaches are to be replaced by red wine and an engaging spirit of good fellowship. The "fight talk" of between halves, which can only be compared with the "miserable sinners repent" discourses of Puritan ancestors, will give way to an informal mingling of the athletes with the spectators...
...does feel, at times, that Dr. Greene rates too high the average Greek, that he might have done well to have considered H. G. Wells' pessimistic verdict on the Athenian mob. We cannot believe that all Greece was populated by Leonidases and Pericles when we know that Cleon and Alcibiades also had their day. Just so the author quotes a quotation of Galton in support of his statement that the men of Athens "developed a type of citizen whose political experience and sagacity, whose contact with life in varied occupations, and whose capacity for appreciating beauty and reason has been...
...debris of a ruined pyramid belonging to a child of the royal family who had made their tombs in the Southern cemetery," says Dr. Reisner, "we found to our great surprise a Greek rhyton of red-figured ware signed with the name of the known Athenian potter, Sotades, who lived about 450 B. C. This was borne on the back of an Amazon mounted on a horse, all beautifully modeled. Whether this masterpiece of the Athenian potter reached Meroe by trade or as a gift brought back by some Meroitic ambassador to Egypt must remain uncertain for the present...
Nevertheless, the new plans of organization to be put through next week are absolutely essential if the high standard of military work at the University is to be maintained. As the Athenian method of a group of generals whose power rotated daily proved a failure, so has it been found impossible to conduct a training corps by means of a Tactical Staff with too much power and a central authority which was not strong enough. The abolition of the former and the strengthening of the latter by the appointments of such men as Major Lane to the position of Regimental...