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...nothing the college man would rather do; but, except with a few exceedingly superior persons, this ambition has been but lamely realized. It is much too difficult to acquire such philosophic poise when these same professors wield a power over one's destiny comparable to the of the notable Kublai Khan, or the former Caliph of Bagbad...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: GROSS FLATTERY | 3/7/1924 | See Source »

When he progresses farther, however, over the roads and mountains traversed by the great Khans Jenghis and Kublai, and by the mereliess Tamerlane-Temur, he becomes not so much the anti-revolutionist as the spokesman and interpreter of dying Mongolia. Himself a Pole, with just enough of the East in him to make him sympathetic with its mysteries and legends, and enough of the West to enable him to read those mysteries and legends, and enough of the West to enable him to read those mysteries in a cold white light, he has drawn a picture that cannot...

Author: By Burke BOYCE G., | Title: THE CRIMSON BOOKSHELF - REVIEWS | 3/15/1923 | See Source »

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