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...Stephen Leacock in a semi-serious mood has looked askance at the present-day rush to the colleges as a too evident victory for the spirit of "go-getting" in American life. He thinks the desire to make more money is at the bottom of increased college attendance, and he doesn't like the tendency...
...Matsudaira presented the President with a pleasing speech and letters of credence as Ambassador from Japan. In reply, the President referred to "your predecessor, Mr. Masanao Hanihara, who so congenially and helpfully represented your Government among us"?a remark perilously near a lie or an opinion by Stephen Leacock...
...would think of taking Stephen Leacock seriously, that is, outside the field-of political economy. Yet, in his latest contribution to Vanity Fair a new seriousness peeps through his levity. He is concerned for the colleges. He wonders why they are being literally overrun with hungry-eyed students wanting to know how to make a living...
...best universities still refuse to each Hair-cutting, Fishing and Undertaking," says Mr. Leacock. To be sure, this is a great lack, but one must not expect too much at once. Certain institutions which call themselves colleges are doing all they can to fill the void. Perhaps the problem of the colleges would be clarified by answering the conundrum: "When is a college not a college...
Selections from Masefield, Kipling, Dickens and Leacock were read by Associate Professor Charles Townsend Copeland 82 in the dining room of the Union last night in his annual Christmas reading. Four hundred members of the University filled an the seats provided and overflowed until they clogged the aisles...