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...alone in my disgust with the usual college lecture. A veteran educator suggests that no professor be allowed to lecture until he has proved that he can bill a town, pack a hall, and satisfy people who have paid good money to hear him hold forth. A student at a famous Mid-Western university describes the lecture system as "that process by which the contents of the professor's notebook are transferred by means of the fountain pen to the student's notebook without passing through the mind of either," and recently Mr. H.G. Wells declared. "There is no need...
Members of the Fordham University football team last week eyed with disgust Rameses IV, a large untidy ram. Three weeks ago Mascot Rameses III, who had brought victory to the team for two seasons, was worried to death by mongrel dogs. Immediately a delegation was sent to a New Jersey slaughter house to pick a fit successor, for Fordham's game with St. Mary's College. The delegation surveyed all rams with care, picked as Rameses IV one whose tough, untidy appearance made him particularly lucky looking. Fortnight ago at the St. Mary's-Fordham game, Rameses...
...said Madame de Parolignac, 'the tiresome creature! How carefully he tells you what everybody knows! How heavily he discusses what is not worth the trouble of being lightly mentioned! How witlessly he appropriates other people's wit! How he spoils what he steals! How he disgusts me! But he will not disgust me any more; it is enough to have to read a few pages by the archdeacon...
Resigned. Jackson Alpheus Graves, president of the Farmers & Merchants Bank of Los Angeles; from the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce. Reason: "Disgust at the action of the chamber in tendering a reception to W. R. Hearst...
...York job-buying judges continued the cause of citizens' disgust. To the charges against Judge George F. Ewald were added this month similar charges against Judge Amadeo A. Bertini of General Sessions Court, successor to deposed Judge Francis Xavier Mancuso (TIME, Aug. 25). One Sunday early this month Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise, crusading civic leader, was advised by his doctor not to preach his scheduled sermon. He asked Norman Thomas, Socialist Congressional candidate and scandal-flayer, to speak for him. After Speaker Thomas had finished describing the city's condition, Rabbi Wise could contain himself no longer...