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...Unfortunately, Author Gravenson is not clear about which theory applies, although he insinuates both in a jarring epilogue in which he suddenly drops his comic mask and opts for some heavy social criticism. Reality has been edited out by the media pharisees, presumably leaving us to ponder the neo-Berkeleyan question: If no one saw what happened on TV, did anything really happen...
...most famous of Knox's witticisms was a limerick on the Berkeleyan idea that things exist only when they have an observer: There once was a man who said: "God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues...
...CRIMSON has had placed on file in the front room of its offices all the college dailies, a number of the college periodicals and several non-collegiate publications. Among them are the Yale News, Yale Alumni Weekly, Daily Princetonian, The Pennsylvanian, Cornell Sun, Brown Herald, The Berkeleyan, The Palo Alto of Leland Stanford University, The Phillipian, The Exonian, The New York Times, The Nation, Harper's Weekly, The Amateur Athlete, The Illustrated American, Truth and Outing. There are also to be had at this office the current numbers of many college weeklies and monthlies and several other non-collegiate publications...
...Berkeleyan for March contains an article on Robert Burns, which is open to the foregoing criticism, and the final paragraph shows the danger of continuing in speaking or writing after an effort has reached a natural conclusion, although it may be an error incident to inexperience; and in this case the omission of that paragraph would have saved the explicit declaration that "Burns was a man of talent and many excellences," in opposition to the general opinion that he was one of the greatest of the poetic geniuses of the eighteenth century...
...MENS sanus in sano corpore" is the way the Berkeleyan expresses it. After all, the old form was getting rather hackneyed, and there is nothing like variety...