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...when he says: "the quality of any individual mind is probably inherent and immutable," that, "we must improve man before we can perfect his institutions and make him behave," that, "the human improvement required is primarily biological," he is talking nonsense. Or, rather, he is talking like that flower of our higher institutions of learning, a college professor...
...make up the socialite crowd; while Proustian are the devices of memory-association and semi-essayistic progression by which the author relates their fantastic adventures to the placider doings and ruminations of Joseph Smith, the gardener, on his one big day. Having won second prize (a disappointment) at the Flower Show, and dined later (a rare treat) with an eminent horticulturist; having afterward heard, for the first time in his life, great music, in the form of Beethoven's Eroica symphony, he returns very tired, belatedly, to the almost deserted castle of Wotton Vanborough. There still further surprises await...
Bert Litman '38 tossed the 12 pound shot 48 feet two and a half inches to win first place. With handicaps Bill Carleback '41, Steve Madey '40, and John Flower '40 placed second, third, and fourth. Ed Ford '40 and Chester O'Autremont '41, aided by handicaps tied for first in the pole vault. Oscar Sutermeister 2G and Steve Madey '40 tied for second...
...scram. Lulie ain't here and things're too damned tame." But my roommate, Charley's his name, he says, "Oh, go dance with the hostess then." Only he says it sort of ominous-like. So I ask one of these flunkeys with a white flower in his button-hole which is the hostess. And he points over to a girl that looks like she'd kept pretty well, and I explain I want the Old lady's daughter. Then it turns out this is the daughter. So then I know what Charley means, and I get careful...
...hurl only words. Japanese were so scared lest the Red Army strike that Tokyo spokesmen announced 200,000 of Japan's "best" troops have been sent to man the Manchukuo-Soviet frontier, claimed that the Japanese troops thus far sent to China are not by any means the flower of the Mikado's legions, kept whistling loudly thus to keep up the Japanese people's courage...