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Since last November the urbane B. B. C. has been moving piecemeal from quarters adjoining the famed Savoy Hotel on the River Thames back and up to its new Broadcasting House, an eight-story flatiron building between Regents Park and Oxford Circus. Termed by its Latin inscription a Templum Hoc Artium et Musarum, the big white flatiron is dedicated Deo Omnipotent, managed by lohanm Reith Equite (John Reith, Knight...
...purely social significance is generally recognized. But here too it must be realized that Yale, contrary to the practice of many of her contemporaries, at least provides the outline of a liberal education that does not sink to the fantastic absurdities of salesmanship and, to borrow from Flexner, ad hoc courses. Yale standards are such that the feels content if she can turn out thoroughly sound and worthwhile members of American society. She must provide for men whose intellectual diet has been a preaching of conformity, hard, clean playing on athletic fields, and good citizenship, from earliest boarding-school days...
...Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc...
...wondering what day it will come next week. Finally, it brings good luck. The day after receiving my first copy, I, for the first time in my life discovered a pearl (not, unfortunately, a pearl of great price, but nevertheless a pearl) in an oyster. By using the post hoc, ergo propter hoc argument which is so popular today, might we not say that TIME brought me a pearl...
...eminent Teutons, notably Herr Ludwig and Herr Keyserling, who have been foreshadowing the future of this country in abstractions, seem obstinately determined to send it packing to its destruction. It appears that the United States is rich and materialistic as was the Roman Empire, and that post hoc, ergo propter hoc, is good and appropriate Latin. But on consideration, other parallels are evident. The tributary nations, such as Nicaragua and Mexico, are departing from fealty; missionaries are retiring in fear before savage Chinese warlords; Europeans look with greed on American wealth. Luxury is creeping in; laborers in linen collars sprawl...