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Conceivably there are three possible reactions to this state of affairs. "As good a criterion as any other" might be the observation of the cynic, or "Another argument for good teams," that of the pragmatist. But to the serious and thoughtful observer, these facts cannot fail to bring a renewed appreciation of the extent to which the distorted sense of values induced by the present overemphasis of football, has seeped into American academic life...
...genius is Bennie Sabitino of Long Island City. Saturday morning he opened there an "Intellectual Meat Market" where the cultured customer can enjoy "a conversation with him on any question involving scientific, philosophical, artistic, and literary considerations". Thus for once arts and the crafts are in harmony, and a criterion for future artists who find art ill paid, and future savants who find saving sage bulks from the building where Bennie works. Like the man who first invented sleep, he has done a novel and helpful thing...
Thus does a southern churchman suggest a new criterion for the eternal masculine. By advocating the wholesale growth of hirsute appendages as the final hedge about manhood--the final hazard for women to jump in her pursuit of virility, the bishop, insures himself a place in the category of reforming saints. At last a defender of the faith has been found--a crusade under the flag of "man and superman." But unfortunately for the contention of the bishop, there was buried last month--though not in Carolina--a lady whose sole attraction and main achievement had been a luxuriant beard...
...being a human attribute, it is subject to the intermittent rule of human fallibility. To proceed on the unproved theorem that intelligence can consciously change the world is so great risk that it is justified in proceeding with the caution which Mr. Miller deplores. Until someone discovers a genuine criterion of truth, intelligence must become accustomed to what Mr. Miller calls the "infamous waste and cruel suffering that its miscarriage is constantly producing." Pilate's embarrassing question: What is truth?" is still as much of a poser to theorists as it ever...
...Paris, one Harold E. Stearns, editor of the Criterion, author of Civilization in the United States, spoke of Author Sinclair Lewis. Said he: "Cad. . . bounder. . . tightwad. . . dumbbell." Irritated by an article in the American Mercury in which Author Lewis referred to him as "father and seer of the Cafe Dôme, who is an authority on living without laboring and who bases his opinions of people's intellectual capacity on the amount of money he can borrow from them," Editor Stearns continued...