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...background of information and ideas which may intellectualize its efforts towards sanity. Its liberalism consists in the evaluation of first principles behind collegiate structure whether it be athletic, academic, or social. As for criticism of affairs outside of college to borrow a motto from a more conservative colleague: Dulce est periculum. If there is any sustaining editorial faith it must be a faith in the natural death of fools. If the liberalism is not foolish, sensitiveness on the part of the attacked will inevitably betray that the critical shaft has struck home. Attack for the sake of attack is destructive...
...bomb into the parlor of the Portuguese Embassy. Ambassador Joao Carlos de Mello Barreto and his wife retreated hastily to the next room, waited with fingers in their ears till the bomb exploded, wrecking the furniture. Spain's President Niceto Alcala Zamora hurried round to express his deep est regrets...
...est de la plaisanterie, hein? [You're joking, aren...
...When the Duke of Devonshire's daughter is married, all true Englishmen feel happy. When the Duke of Richmond rides with his hounds, all true Englishmen blow their horn. But the Frenchman holds to his own poet: Mon verre n'est pas grand, mais je bois dans mon verre, and unless he drinks himself, he does not smack his lips...
...show in Burlington House (TIME, Jan. 12). It was the largest showing of the paintings of Pablo Ruiz Picasso ever held. Dealers were there in respectful silence; for Picasso, who used to sell his sketches to Pere Soulier, prizefighter, for 20 francs apiece, is today one of the rich- est, most successful of modern painters. Last summer he spurned $30,000 from the Copenhagen Museum for a single canvas...