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...Colleges erect immense new buildings, install new systems, set enrolment limits in the thousands--in short, strain every resource to accommodate more thousands. To what end? Their Gargantuan efforts have certainly not blessed the world with a new Republic of wisdom and virtue. No one but a blind optimist would pretend so. What the mammoth machine has done is to make society over by creating a new class which has given the characteristic color to American life: a complacent, materialistic, pleasure-seeking class of half-educated men and women...
...cried out upon the religious duties exacted from them. Said The Amherst Student: "Is not Amherst out of step with the modern liberal trend? Certainly the sickly tedious bosh which too often passes here for formal Religion can have no attraction to a virile mind. Unless religion can stand erect and challenging without the prop of attendance statistics, it deserves to topple into obscurity...
Some months ago, a tall, erect, blond, young man of severely military carriage and aristocratic mien, was invited to a garden party at one of the most sumptuous villas of which modern Rome can boast. There he was introduced to a slight, dark-eyed girl olive-skinned, graceful as a faun, warm with the lambent inner radiance of the Italian heart...
...tall erect young man was smitten both with love and with a consciousness of his inferiority; he was only Prince Philip of Hesse. The slight brown-eyed girl, likewise swept into love by the fatal attraction of opposites, be-shrewed daintily the day that she was born Mafalda, Princess of Italy, and resolved to wheedle King Vittorio Emanuele into letting here stoop to her tall lover...
Wallace Johnson, very erect, very sleek and ungraceful, leans back a little as his racquet meets the ball. He never seems particularly concerned with what he is doing. No matter how fierce his match, he always has an air of being one of the linesmen. He depends for success on his celebrated chop-stroke- a shot which he executes with the same twist of the wrist that a chef in the front window of a low-grade restaurant employs to turn a pancake. The ball skims the net low, finds corners and clips lines with uncanny accuracy, bounces; extremely...