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Four groups of qualifications were mentioned by Mr. Rhodes as the basis of selection: literary and scholastic ability; qualities of manhood and truth; leadership and interest in others, and physical vigour as demonstrated in outdoor activities. Critics of Dr. Frank Aydelotte's policy declare that not enough emphasis is placed by the Rhodes Committees on the all-around abilities of the successful candidates. Some account should be taken of this criticism, as beyond a doubt, certain sections of the thickly-populated regions produce a greater number of capable candidates than the sparsely settled western states. It is unfortunate that...
...virgin rats and spayed mice. If Clara was a true female, her specimens would contain glandular secretions called hormones which would put the rodents into rut. The test was made; Clara was a boy. Thereupon surgeons started a series of major operations to release the latent seeds of manhood. Last week it was announced that the final touches will take place in October after which Clara will assume the name of Clarence...
...exiled Austrian archduke and an Indian woman, Rico grew up in the jungles of a nameless Spanish-American country, turned bandit in his youth and became dictator in his manhood. A frank realist, he never hesitated to kill when it was necessary. He was pleased that the people said of him: "He is a man of business." His principle: "If in doubt, kill! Nor fear that you waste aught of value." His aim was to govern well; when he found that modernization went against the country's grain he benevolently preserved the status quo. He permitted the kind...
...Bright Lexicon" is the title selected by Donald Culross Peattie for his new novel which will be published on March 23rd by G. P. Putnam's Sons. It is the story of Kyril, the Wunder-kind, from a boy to young manhood, when he discovers that knowledge cannot be translated into happiness and the oldest of human emotions recalls him to seek his destiny as have most men before him. Mr. Peattie's conception of Europe--rather the opposite of Spengler's declining West--grew out of the Riviera's fascinating cosmos of disrupted society. He sees Western civilization...
...YOUNG MANHOOD OF STUDS LONIGAN-James T. Farrell-Vanguard ($2.50). Author Farrell is already a little out of date. Though brutally realistic novels with tough slum heroes will doubtless continue to be written, their day is waning with the reading public. Of their departing kind The Young Manhood of Studs Lonigan is a worthy example. The Lonigans were decent Irish Catholics, dwellers in a poor Chicago neighborhood. But they thought of themselves as citizens of no mean city. Young Studs took to his tough environment like an alley-cat to a garbage can-fought, smoked, played football in vacant lots...