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...gentlemen that their metaphor may be inapplicable, that instead of being a class of people standing "on the fence," the liberals are steadily traversing the road of progress, while on one side the reactionaries flounder in the morass of outgrown institutions, and on the other the radicals flit along in pursuit of the elusive mirage of Utopia...
...February number of the Monthly does not loss in interest though it presents a surprising contrast to the "Pagan" issue of last month. The figures and sentiments of antiquity no longer flit through its pages; they are replaced by comparatively modern and sordid actualities; like the U. S. Foreign Policy, the "Movie" and the Theatre and the Harvard Regiment. The prevailing note of the number is non-fictional; indeed, the only serious criticism that can be brought against the Monthly of 1916 is the absence of anything particularly creative in the realm of the short story...
...afternoon. An invitation has been received from Radcliffe to stage the contest in front of Agassiz as an open Idler, but modesty forbids, and Soldiers Field will be the scene of the struggle. Blood and beer will flow freely, and everything will be sweet and gay as the editors flit around the bags...
...life. Every member of the incoming class finds himself in receipt of an invitation from the venerable president to attend a reception at his residence. Excitement ensues; wardrobes are ransacked and set in order; lessons are hastily read, or pushed aside; visions of bright forms and thoughts of conquest flit through the undergraduate mind; upper-classmen are quizzed as to the probabilities of the evening, social, and even gastronomical. At the appointed time, a long train of students file into the president's library, and are warmly received by that gentleman, his wife, various members of the faculty...
...thin clouds flit...