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...Ceylon en route to the Imperial Conference at London. While his ship coaled in teeming Colombo he decided to brave the sunbeams, see the town. Cheerfully he advanced down the quay escorted by punctilious officials (Ceylon is British) then suddenly turned ashen pale, tottered, collapsed in a sprawling faint...
...long stubborn adherence to a skimpy vegetable diet (a plate of pea soup was often his whole meal; was what made him faint in the Cincinnati station. The doctor who examined him in Lawyer Klein's home diagnosed his condition as exhaustion caused by self-starvation. The Kleins fed their wandering friend (he used to mail the Klein children sticks of gum with a dime slipped under each wrapper), tried to put him to bed. He insisted on sleeping on a mattress, on the attic floor. Refreshed, he insisted he must go on from Cincinnati to Staunton, Va., Woodrow...
...arrangements, many sprawling sentences, even a few errors in grammar that are apparent to an undergraduate, but then, as the publishers say in a foreword, the manuscript of the book was left unaltered for fear of spoiling the elemental vigor of it all. But if this is damning with faint praise, we'll go further any say that "Close Hauled", granting excuses, is second rate...
This damnation by faint praise is the result of the prevalent idea that college is exclusively a preparation for life and thus is quite removed from actual living. Judged entirely on a basis of earning capacity, this is, in most cases, quite true. But where is that epigrammarian who will say: living is earning a living? Or where is that educator who will say: we are speculating with amorphous clay which will not come to life until we give it the power to earn a daily wage? To consider the college years as a pleasant pre-natal period before...
...avoiding musical comedy or the re-hashing of box-office successes, the Dramatic Club escapes the stigma of "amateur theatrical" a term which so effectively damps with faint praise many similar groups throughout the country. And with the experimental production of plays which have been brushed aside by the big business element of the modern Theatre, the Dramatic Club can, as it has in the past, render invaluable service to the cause of American Drama. But "policy for policy's sake" is a motto which has never been in keeping with high standards...