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...capitalistic Washington, State Department officials stuck to the story of the ogre that is Bolshevism, refused passports to Socialists, rebuked far-away Mexico for communistic tendencies. In Chicago their archenemy, Comrade Charles E. Ruthenberg, master-Bolshevik, eyes hope-haunted with a thousand failures, lay still, died. Throughout the U. S. tiny bands of comrades mourned. "He was," said the Daily Worker, communist newssheet, "the sole outstanding figure who carried over into our party the very best traditions of the pre-War socialist movement.... We expected to write soon that he had gone to prison because of his loyalty...
...windows display barrels of delicious looking moth balls. Everything presages the disintegration of the college community. As the line of march to the rotunda begins to form, the Crimson extends to the departing host its heartiest wishes for a pleasant vacation and a safe return to the fold in far-away September...
...necessity of closer personal contact between professors and students. In doing so, he has voiced the greatest need of every freshman who, coming from a friendly preparatory school, is apt to find Harvard a vast cold place of fact and knowledge, where men are names and professors are far-away statues pedestaled on a lecture-room platform. In the mind of the newcomer there may arise the feeling that there is no one directly interested in him, no one to whom he can tie; he thinks himself a foundling on the doorstep of learning...
...evening, and imagine one's self lolling on the "paepae" of some picturesque Marquesan hut, listening to the chatter of Exploding Eggs, the native valet, and Chief Seventh Man Who Is So Angry He Wallows in The Mud, than it would be to explore in the flesh those far-away places, to broll under the tropic sun, flee from the shark and the enraged swordlish, or suffer the stings of the "nones" in deserted Haapa, where the last dregs of the Typee race wait for death to release them. One even half-suspects that the beauty of Vanquished Often...
...matter to play the role of a Marco Polo. Yet in this the guest of honor at the Union tonight has succeeded completely. He has explored unknown polar regions, discovered new peoples in new lands, and upset traditional theories. What more adventurous than to spend five years in the far-away North of the world, and then return with amazing information after all hope had been given...