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What this doctrine fails to taken into account, and what has led to the recent explosion, is that a ticket system like that now in vogue takes little cognizance of class standing and keeps an artificial caste hierarchy intact for four years of everyone's college life. The person who...
Some of the slum families were consumptive, some "harmless" (a euphemism for touched in the head) and some were looked down upon for reasons of caste: tinkers, or beggars, or those who live on charity, in the tenements (once fine 18th Century houses) of Napper Tandy Street. Twisty Nellie, a...
Placid Loafers. In Linden, circa 1895, the pace of life was leisurely. The horse-cars would stop while conductor and passengers got out to give some neighbor a hand. When a fire started, the volunteer fire fighters seldom got to the scene before the building was leveled. Most people worked...
Elephant Rumbles. Between extractions and fillings, Eskelund carried on a romance with a half-caste native girl named Oolong, went on elephant hunts ("You must stand still . . . until you hear the rumble in the elephant's belly"), drank Haig & Haig with the King. Later he moved to Shanghai, where...
Selective Process. These physical characteristics are the result of long-continued selection. Inca customs may have helped the process consciously. Young men who wanted to join the orejones (warrior caste) had to fast for four days, climb several mountains, and then wrestle on an empty stomach. There was also a...