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...Homo is the sailor home from the sea, and with him he has brought decided opinions concerning education, coeducation and floating colleges. Prematurely back in the United States, some weeks before the Ryndam which is bearing four hundred young men and sixty young women on a world cruise dedicated to the advancement of learning former Governor Allen of Kansas has much to say on the subject of his voyage. It was not be avers, an entirely unhappy voyage but it was a stormy one. He is still an upholder of the aquatic university, but he maintains that it needs practical...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: EXPERIENCE THE BITTER TEACHER | 4/13/1927 | See Source »

...absurd and impossible, but you can not escape, once you have read him, from the powerful and fierce personality that so ruthlessly slashed at Christianity, democracy, feminism, and modern morality, that held up as ideals the Will to Power and the honest, fearless, cruel, yea-sayings superman. Ecce Homo! The critic and destroyer, the builder and the prophet...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GOSPEL OF THE SUPERHUMAN | 2/17/1927 | See Source »

...violently protest their innocence, and rejoice. Padlocking is better publicity than full page advertisements in every newspaper in New York. "The Drag", which is advertised as "the male captive" was allowed to run only two days in Bridgeport. From all accounts it contains little else but wise cracks on homo-sexuality, and is hardly on a higher level than the folk-literature in certain public places. But these two performances have made "The Drag" as famous as "Broadway", for instance, which has played to packed houses for three months. James Timoney, part owner, is seriously considering putting the play...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: DON'T BE DIRTY | 2/11/1927 | See Source »

...Wells believes that as our life span increases we ascend the spiral of progress. Sex, he thinks, becomes of less importance and civilization attains maturity. By artificially living longer we are doing something quite out of the range of the other animals. Thus, homo sapiens leaves his competitors far behind in the race, and in his lengthened life can use his mating energies for better things. The results are interesting when this theory of Mr. Wells is applied to the lives on alligators and caterpillars. The latter live only a few days as adult butterflies mate, flutter about...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: THE BOY GREW OLDER | 1/10/1927 | See Source »

...species Babbitii of Homo Americanus Mukerji's latest offering will seem incomprehensible tosh about an incomprehensible person, one Rama Krishna, whom his followers call an Incarnation of God, as was also Buddha, Mohammed, and Christ...

Author: By H. W. Bragdon ., | Title: Biographies of Spiritual Leaders | 10/18/1926 | See Source »

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