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...their "four long years". The Guide is an expression of undergraduate opinion which is gathered at oral hearings and by questionnaires among the Freshmen, and its mistakes result not from editorial bias, but from the human fallibility of its writers. There is no attempt to soften criticism or to grind an editorial axe: that would hardly be fair either to the college or to the incoming Freshmen for whom the Guide is offered...
...pressing in this day and age, but a peace strike is not the place to air labor's grievances. The most forceful, most impressive, peace-strike is one that is dedicated solely to the cause of peace and is participated in by speakers who have no other axes to grind. With Hapgood and Lovett leading today's discussion, an undue emphasis is bound to be placed upon the problems that confront labor, which will distort the supposed objective of the peace strike and diminish the singleness of purpose that such a strike should strive to attain...
Some of the items in Muggeridge's indictment are fairly damning. At school and college Butler was a grind who was ashamed of being one, who prided himself rather on being a hanger-on of one of the best sets. He refused to be dragooned into the Church, instead vacillated a while, then let his father set him up as a sheep-rancher in New Zealand. There he prospered, in five years nearly doubled his investment. And there he picked up the first of his own hangers-on, one Pauli, a somewhat shady gentleman whom Butler supported thenceforth till...
Camp Kare-Free's guests are both funny and pathetic. Exhausted from a 50-week grind in city offices, they are pitiably anxious to have fun on their precious fortnight's vacation, to put their best foot forward with the other guests, perhaps even to find a wife or husband, for Proprietor Abe Tobias offers a free honey moon the following year to any couple whose troth is plighted at Kare-Free. There is Henrietta Brill, a fat girl with Communist tendencies. There is Miriam Robbins who shamefully chases after Pinkie Aaronson, who owns two hat shops, wears...
ELLIOT NUGENT was a fairly serious Ohio State University during the days Great War, but he was also a quarter miler, cut in on studying. James Grover Thurber, was a complete grind opposed to judging by the hours he spent in the library State and by the long hair he always wore before his eyes. Nugent and Thurber met to their mutual benefit. James went out more frequently; Elliot came indoors to begin in the Ohio State...