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...though with Horace one can admit that to play the fool in the right place is delightful, one cannot admit that the steps of Widener Library are the place. That the recent demonstration of the truth that Aristotle was a trifle sanguine in naming man a thinking being was significant of nothing but a moronic joie de vivre, nevermore to darken the doors of Widener is obvious. The moving pictures have enough material on hand for absurd caricature of Harvard life without aid from the class...
...They came personally to Congress with petitions railing against the General. Two years ago President Coolidge told them it was useless, told them in effect that it was impossible for them to make any sober individual in Washington believe that Governor General Wood was a tyrant, knave or fool...
...Then Mr. Mencken arose: " The reason we attacked this poor fool* and ruined him was an effort to substitute the courts of law for back-alley assassination. . . . From now on we are going to make these fellows bring their charges into the open. . . . And they're easy to beat. We've just proved that. When you get after them, 99% will run, and the other 1% is easy picking...
...April Fool!" taunted the pro-Stresemann sheets at Nationalist editors, whose papers had appeared with cartoons showing Stresemann and Mussolini wearing each other's clothes and stirring up Vesuvius...
...shall attend no more classes this day. Let wise men rush in, where this fool fears to tread. Hell holds no fury for a Dante, and at 3 o'clock in Sever 17 Professor Elton will lead his class into the nether regions. Vagabonds do not go direct, but course after course...