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...pity. To think that such sorrow can be held within one professorial form! Yet perhaps the doctor will soon have found his peace. The heart beneath the surface of some peon bodice may beat for the professor's learning. Some ruffian of the plains may seek wisdom at his fount. How fortunate he is to be removed from the mundane midst of American mediocrity. Now he can enjoy perfect English among virile types in a violent land. Then, when another agrarian movement robs Mexico of a delight in Shelley, and the bullets of the next candidate for the presidency penetrate...
...Without precedent," exclaimed officials, throwing up their hands in surprise. But there is something that approaches a precedent. Walt Whitman, now regarded by many as the chief fount of American poesy, was, shortly after the Civil War, ousted from the Treasury Department because atheistical tendencies were discerned in Leaves of Grass...
...outstanding conception of the Cantabrigian student, in the popular mind, is a snobbish, and pompous individual, scion of a bloated meat-packer, correctly dressed and redressed for every occasion, insensible to the lure of the classic fount, but pursuing the social whirl in liveried equipage. This is all wrong...
...made the equivalent of a college course, why call it social service--and, above all, why call it volunteer work? Perhaps, it is hide-bound conservatism that forces the Princetonian to take a reactionary view of this latest development of higher education spurting from the very fount of Knowledge; yet, the Princetonian is inclined to come forth with the anciently discredited dogma that to be philanthropic one must be inspired with a simon-pure love of mankind, undiluted by any expectation of future reward, be it diploma or otherwise...
...creditable piece of work, seem commonplace. But it hardly needs a foil to set off the astounding performance on Mr. Mackaye's "Uriel" which closes the number. One not infrequently finds in undergraduate publications evidence of a kind of verbal intoxication, the result of some youth's finding a fount of critical terms, and drinking too much before he knew how strong it was--with unseemly results. A. W. W.'s performance is by far the worst instance of this I have ever seen. Never before, I believe, have two pages of the Monthly contained so much unadulterated nonsense...