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JOHN GALE HUN...
...Distressed Princeton underclassmen rely on John Gale Hun, who also runs the expensive Hun School (tuition: $1,800). Tutor Hun has a sizable staff, a man Friday in wiry John I. Harvey, who was Jack I. Horovitz when he graduated from Princeton in 1925. Princeton's comprehensive upperclass examinations cannot be easily crammed for. Hun's patrons are almost exclusively freshmen and sophomores. Princeton has never taken official notice of Tutor Hun, except to protect dullards from a flood of Hun mail by ruling three years ago that failures in courses should not have their names publicly posted...
...long as I live I'll never be able to forget I tangled with the Hun, but for the past 17 years I have tried desperately hard to let the rest of the world forget it. Edith Wynner to the contrary, men in general, who have been in a front-line dressing station during an attack, who have chewed up a towel or two to keep their screams from blending with the shrieks and moans of the endless "dressing hours," do not goose step, wave flags, or cry for more and better wars. Neither are they yellow. I speak...
...last months of the Great War the ''doughboy," the "poilu" and the "Tommy'' fought side by side against "Jerry" (also known as "the Boche" and "the Hun"). Of all these warriors only "Tommy" had a last name. Thomas Atkins, oldest soldier of modern times, has been serving His or Her Britannic Majesty since post-Waterloo clays. Until the late great Rudyard Kipling showed what a dear fellow Tommy really was underneath his tough exterior, he was also known as "the brutal soldiery." Last week Thomas Atkins spoke up for himself, showed he was neither a dear...
...strongest of these colonies was the Oneida Community at Oneida, N. Y., stronghold of "communism of love" and of experiments in birth control, prosperous manufacturer of steel traps and silverware, centre of scandal for more than 30 years. Founded in 1847 with a handful of converts and a few hun-dred dollars capital, the Community in 1880 owned property valued at more than $500,000, divided among 225 members, including a number of scientifically-bred children. The original members had endured systematic and effective persecution, had the privilege of exchanging wives within certain limits rigidly enforced by the leaders...