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"Oh, he'll be all right after we get some sense knocked into him." This is the sentiment, expressed in one form or another . . . in which the hard headed business man holds the young college graduate. . . . He avers it as his experience that the callow youth just out of college...
The Speaker avers that the President's selective draft bill cannot pass. Let us hope he is as good a prophet as he was when he declared last spring that the McLemore "scuttle" resolution was bound to win. Boston Post.
Perhaps the argument was too locally applied. A correspondent of the Nation wishes to extend the conclusion "to cover the question what American men in general talk about." This writer complains that at gatherings of college men he is entertained only with "lectures by Walter This or Big Bill That...
Barring the first book review, the November Monthly has taken an aggressive, straightforward tone fairly free from convention and happily from preciosity, Professor Francke's featured article on "Germany's Hope," that is, individual subordination to ideal advance of the state, would have conveyed its point with somewhat less iteration...
The class of '91 has been aroused. The communication-published to day gives us an unique view of the situation of college affairs. If, however, as the writer avers, only a very few '91 men attended the "punches" on Monday last, our whole denunciation of the class was unjust, and...