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...like anything crimson," stated a rather short, jovial middle aged man with dark hair and a well-trimmed Van Dyke beard, "but your kind of Crimson isn't on the sex I prefer to see wearing it." In such a manner Will Durant, noted American philosopher, laughingly started conversation with a CRIMSON reporter last evening while in a taxi on the way to Symphony Hall to debate with Bertrand Russell...
...American colleges today are all right, and don't deserve half the criticism they get," Dr. Durant pointed out, and then added, "I am certainly glad I went through one, myself...
...course the benighted will say, with the cynicism which is born of cerebral nebulosity, that the debaters being philosophers will not necessarily say anything new about democracy. Perhaps they won't; but what of it? The mere pleasure of hearing such men as Will Durant and Bertrand Russell in debate, will induce the Vagabond to spare the price of a ticket. As for regular lectures, the following seem of interest...
...Durant, Miss., a great piece of cheese lay on a massive platform last week. The cheese weighed 2,000 Ibs. and in its way was as notable as the notables who stood about it, sniffed at it, rolled a slice from its savory bulk over their tongues-Governor Dennis Murphree of Mississippi, President Lawrence Aloysius Downs of the Illinois Central, President John H. Kraft of the Kraft Cheese Co., and many another...
President Kraft had had that great cheese made. It symbolized the opening at Durant, of the first commercial cheese factory in the South. And that factory meant a market for milk; a market for milk meant that dairy industry would develop and kill the bane of a single (cotton) crop in the South...