Word: idiots
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Hooligans and muckers, why must college men at college games be both? Seeing no glory in honest sport, why must these so highly "educated" persons set so extreme a value on victory, behave like a cross between an idiot and a maniac? Sometimes one thinks their case is pathological. Sometimes one wonders if a Society for the Introduction of Civilization into Large Colleges would do any good? Would it cure these Dionysians, graduate and undergraduate, if they were settled among the Pueblo Indians to learn gentlemanly sportsmanship and the rudiments of breeding? But this would be laying too hard...
...went for 280,000, a nude by Matisse for 100,000; the highest price of the sale 520,000 francs was paid for a picture by Henry Rousseau, "The Sleeping Bohemian," which the artist sold 15 years ago for 400 francs. Even now some critics laugh at it. "What Idiot," asked L'Oetivre, "Will Pay the Big Price for the 'Sleeping Bohemian'?" To pass sentence on the mental soundness of M. Bigne, the buyer, one must see the picture...
...with no fond fairy tales, he is not told that it really isn't so hard after all when you actually get into it. He is warned that he is selling his body and soul into an eleven weeks' bondage; yet he comes out just the same and is idiot enough to tell his roommates, at the rare times when he sees them, that he likes...
...more dramatic and thrilling than actually justified, the social side--the CRIMSON dances, admitted by Lampoon men to be the best in college, the bridge, the teas, the hours of idle conversation in the Sanctum--may assume an unwanted glow. The ex-editor may, in short, be a sentimental idiot. But there are many such idiots, enough to have filled the CRIMSON ranks in the past; enough po doubt, to fill them in the future. It is not necessary to exhort undergraduates to try for the CRIMSON; those with a taste for the sort of adventure which CRIMSON work offers...
...IDIOT MAN-Charles Richet- Brentano's ($2). Because he drinks, drugs, smokes, wears earrings, has venereal diseases, tattoos, castrates, circumcises, lets mosquitoes live, fears free trade and death, martyrs his great, razes his forests and does not talk Esperanto, and because all the while he knows better, therefore, fumes Prof. Richet, homo sapiens is homo stultus, most stupid of animals, God's idiot. Most of which is the ranting of a dyspeptic physiologist. Whole herds of bison, seals, penguins and other contented animals are cited in contrast to homo stultus, but in the heat of the moment...