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...suppression of heretical Freshmen. Here I sit down to solve the "Why and the Wherefore, and if not why-not," of the euclitic 'thee' in 'prithee'. Since I am, of course, posted in advance of the questions which are going to be asked, I am also ready to distinguish between Plato, Pluto, Plutarch, Pliny, and Petrarch, and if necessary to write a limerick...
...book reviews I referred thus to U. S. Journalists George Jean Nathan and Henry Louis Mencken: 'These illustrious warriors are very readable. They are also violent, impudent, farcical, grotesque and intellectually unscrupulous. It is impossible that writers who "go on" with the pen as they do could reliably distinguish a good book or good play from a bad one. . . . I do not wish them death. I read them with gusto. They make me laugh...
...explain to the world just why, in so far as physical appearance is concerned, the color line is so rapidly vanishing. Surely even Poynter himself must know that if the stranger in certain sections of the South relies solely on color he is decidedly unable in many instances to distinguish a white man from a Negro, notwithstanding the well-known fact that intermarriage between the races is strictly forbidden by Southern laws! May we ask Poynter who is to blame? Certainly not the despised...
This is not the first time that Louisville has cried "mad dog." Last autumn, an ecstatic writer of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch wrote: "Once Kentucky had charm and individuality. Now it is hard to distinguish it from Kansas. The hills are full of antievolutionists, prohibitionists and reformers, and the Ku Klux Klan's fiery crosses burn under the walls of its abandoned distilleries. . . ." Enraged, fuming, two-fisted Governor W. J. Fields telegraphed the St. Louis paper: "Your vicious and unwarranted editorial attack upon Kentucky . . . indicates that you are either a liar or a fool, and I am inclined...
...distinguish the characteristics of the student body at Dartmouth is a difficult task for one who is a part of that body and who cannot accurately compare it to other groups. But there is one quality which seems to be lacking among Dartmouth undergraduates, and that is enthusiasm...