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Education. President William Herbert Perry Faunce of Brown University stood before the convention to flay the U. S. public school system. Said...
...card home. He wanted to see the Chicago park system, stock yards, municipal pier "and that stadium where the Dempsey-Tunney fight was held." He said: "Greatest American? Lindbergh, undoubtedly. Next President ? Oh, probably Charley Hughes. Locarno pact? What's that?" Hearst Editor Arthur Brisbane took occasion to flay Mr. Gray: "He never reads the foreign news, just goes along through life very much like any chicken in his chicken yard, if he has a chicken yard. Fortunately for the nation it is not made up exclusively of average citizens...
...Nathan, dramatic reviewer, have smirked at the pair with the nervously good-natured tolerance that a stupid child affects when he sees "Billy is a fool" written upon the school wall. Intelligent critics realize the formula upon which these angry, mocking mimes base their performance. The grotesqueries which they flay are often genuine; but most intelligent people find more important things to think about than such grotesqueries. The admirers of the team of Mencken & Nathan are generally to be found among the mushroom intelligentsia at whom their weapons are pointed; but the admiration is so open-mouthed and so self...
...this letter news? It is to me merely a selfish attempt to flay an established concern, and an attempt on the part of one who does not even mention his school so that one may form an unbiased opinion on the basis of actual comparison...
...Double Flay Ends Game...