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Professors are, after all, rather idiotic. George Boas from his study at Johns Hopkins would admit that, for he himself continues as a professor of English literature. Yet idiocy--this kind of idiocy is the leaven in the lump of mediocrity and cultural decadence, so often the apparent heritage of the nation. Without it Ellis Island would be the gateway to oblivion instead of the open sesame to a fairly interesting modern nation. With it America can still believe that such outbursts of insanity as the Cathcart case may not plunge her into complete international disfavor...
...where the college daily advises that "Women st. Oklahoma University are forbidden to have doses on week day nights. Walking home with a man from the library means dismissal from school." But, after all, this over emphasis on probity may, as the Dakota student so aptly affirms, "be the leaven from which a greater university sprit may grow." And though a Baptist and more inhibited than most, I sincerely hope...
...college graduate with his broader, deeper intellectual training will always be a more necessary leaven in business life. But for the rank and file of "successful" men, minor executives and even major, the value of modern college education as business training remains unproved...
...League treaty series. This work, compiled in the interests of open diplomacy, contains more than one thousand treaties, and is one of the monumental achievements of the League. Although, for well-informed international lawyers, it will be about as useful as Blackstone, it is more yeast in the leaven of that expansive substance international entente. All fifty-four league members file their treaties, as they are made, in this collection. Most United States treaties, having for co-signatories various ones of the fifty-four, are already a part thereof. But United States treaties with Ecuador, Russia Egypt, Afghanistan, Turkey...
...many underdeveloped individuals exist in every city and in every town. One sees them and, forgetting the others who leaven the leaf, fancies a soggy and undistinguished nation as the ultimate in America. But the Romans who, after all, made themselves a fairly energetic and successful nation for some time, were not always mature in their warrings or in their peace. And a certain playwright and wit has not yet learned to credit Britain with a complete maturity. Prosperous playboys Americans may be this diagnostician of the great American malady has found them that but at least they have...