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...alas! to go beneath these light trivialities to the more serious aspects of life. America's contributions are on the negative side of the ledger. America is responsible for the extensive use of cosmetics. America has taken Art and pasted her on billboards. America has taken away the joy of living and substituted instead the joy of spending and of getting in order to spend more...
...others of the great teams whose shadow once fell so far across the autumn fields. Therefore, "I-o-way", is happy. It is something, after all, to have come out of Iowa City and rubbed the "Bulldog's" nose in the dust of his own field. Philadelphia Public Ledger...
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...Princetonian" is, to put it mildly, a bit wrought up over an editorial, in the Philadelphia "Public Ledger", based upon a misconstruing of President Hibben's letter to parents in regard to students in college having automobiles. This letter was recently published in some of the daily papers. The interpretation put upon it by the "Ledger's" editorial writer is somewhat amusing. Among other things Dr. Nicholas Murray Butler's recent statement that "the youth of America have come to regard a college term as a period of luxurious idleness and case in an exclusive country club" is brought...
...editorial goes on to say that President Hibben is losing patience with the undergraduate "whose costly and conspicuous machines are one of the sights of Princeton". "It is reminiscent," continues the "Ledger", "of the war waged over the dining clubs in Woodrow Wilson's day a war that was won by the advocates of privilege, leisure, and exclusiveness. . . ." The fault--if fault there is in an undergraduate's possessing a car at college--is justly put at the feet of the parents; but then the whole effect is weakened by an admission that the author of the "Ledger" "ed" takes...