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This is a frank statement of the psychology behind the preparatory schoolboy's attitude toward college. Athletics and social success loom over-whelmingly large; the activities of the mind are dwarfed into insignificance. It is the same psychology which remains to a less extent behind the attitude of some undergraduates toward the college. It is the same psychology which makes the mention of the college in the metropolitan newspapers depend in nine cases out of ten upon athletic achievement. Opposed to it is the increasing undergraduate interest in the curriculum, in educational experiments, in the expression of student opinion...
What is the U. S. to do with its treasury surplus of $300,000,000?, This question, obviously a matter for experts, has now become a morsel for politicians. Congress, either by action or inaction, at its winter session will probably decide the problem. Several schemes loom...
...past years the futility of prophesying with a record book in one hand has been discovered. It is on the basis of Yale's better showing against Brown and Princeton that the Blue is favored to win, but to the unblamed observer the two teams trampled by other elevens loom as evenly matched as Harvard Yale teams ever...
...young New Jersey Baptist who took his B. A. at Rutgers only two years before the World War began, now sits fiscally enthroned over Germany as Agent General of Reparations. Beside 34-year-old Seymour Parker Gilbert such financiers as John Pierpont Morgan, 59, of 23 Wall Street, loom as fiscal gaffers. Yet there are among active U. S. fiscal titans men of a youthful middle age. For example, Clarence Dillon, of Dillon, Read & Co., is 44. Mr. Dillon is of course the enfant terrible of Wall Street, "a comer," who has "come," a dollar-genius brilliant enough to negotiate...
...LITTLE LESS-Ashie Pharall-Appleton ($2.0 Valentine Forrester, a clear-eyed Bohemienne, finds herself attached to a post-war commission in hectic Vienna, where high living overcrusts the depths of misery and shillings loom large. Kit Mallory, cosmopolitan philanderer and frankly short on scruples, finds his languid way to her well guarded heart. How she chooses between this man, who lies neither to himself nor to her, and Paul Wychart, brotherly Virginian, makes an illuminating tale. Miss Pharall is plausible in her picture of a feminine heart both fine and philosophic. She has a knack for reproducing conversation, shunning mere...