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...sounds as if this particular Cornell man had been sitting at the feet of that noted pessimist, Mr. Gil Dobie; and, if Mr. Doble has indirectly something to do with his disciple's disgust, the suggestion is all the more worthy attention from the wise heads who are sitting up of nights with American education and feeling its feeble pulse. Cornell's well-wishers are not the only amateur college presidents who mourn the decline of the tough specimen at college. Sports writers and alumni everywhere are likewise saddened to witness insidious attempts to make the American university into...
...article which appeared in the editorial column of Wednesday's CRIMSON under the title of "Duces Wild". This article was probably intended to throw ridicule at Mussolini, but unfortunately the author has descended to such a depth of calumnious utterances that instead of provoking mirth, his words bring only disgust to the reader. The disparagement of great men is a pastime indulged in by the intellectuals of every country, when it is done with due regard to decency of speech, but when such a diversion goes beyond all limits of moderation, it then becomes the recreation only of the uncivil...
...found out in one year what it takes most of them four to discover. By a mere technicality--a little matter of three years' residence--Mr. Vandercook failed to get his degree, when, by rights, his unusual acuteness really entitled him to a summa. No wonder he left in disgust for the jungles of South America...
...variability of New England weather is recorded by Mark Twain in the minutiae of its changes, but some new epic singer must be found to record the heroic changes of yesterday. No wonder the New England temperament is so firm and unyielding; it has been molded by disgust for the climate...
...drains, dogmas and all the iron altars erected to that latter day simulacrum of the Golden Bull of Tyre-the Industrial Ham. As Dickens' behavior toward Dissent was once described as that of a man who takes up a noisome fungus, smells it, makes an inarticulate noise of disgust and throws it away, so Arthur Machen treated the toadstools which, in 1906, he did not love. "Everything I hated in 1906 I hate now; if possible, with greater heartiness," says Arthur Machen and, in tribute to the refreshing gallantry which has kept him loyal through the years...