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...become more the man of leisure, Professor Babbitt's Utopia of Socratic standardization is plainly impossible. He advocates a "classic restraint" as the only solution to the hectic post-romantic ineffectuality of American civilization and appeals to academic circles to exercise their control in the defeat of the hydra-headed monsters of distracting niaterialism and ultimate inefficiency...
...Another Hydra head has popped up to threaten serenity in Reading Period hibernation. "Sunshine starvation" is the latest excuse to while away long hours over seductive literature on "coral islands", "bright jewels of the West Indies",--average temperature 60 to 70 degrees. For science has decreed that sunshine like food is pernicious by its absence. Flowers fade and wither away, children get rickety, and the Harvard Club of Boston installs machinery to feed its sunshine-hungry members. Not of least interest is the biological study which accompanied this announcement. The photographer has caught all the intimate charm which must surround...
...various chimerical requirements and regulations that beset the path of the Harvard student probably there is none regarded with more bewilderment than the so-called Language Requirements. Like the mythical hydra it has several heads, each of which may be lopped off by the forewarned and forearmed undergraduate in one way or another. The purpose of this dissertation is to endeavor to make this monster less dreadful by explaining its several parts and the various ways in which it may be defeated...
...Aged Paul Koundouriotis, Provisional President of Greece, '72, suddenly ordered out a Greek naval plane, at Phaleron (Athenian naval base) last week, stepped into the ship as passenger and flew for the first time in his life. Destination: the Island of Hydra, 50 miles distant, where His Excellency was born...
Born on the Island of Hydra in 1855, he adopted a naval career in his earliest youth, and rose to the distinction of twice defeating the Turkish fleet during the Balkan War of 1912-13. An adherent of Diplomat Venizelos, he shared the fortunes of that statesman until...