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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...material gathered to illustrate this thesis is of no mean quality. On the title page the editors confess their mission. The illustrations and text bear out the promise. One who has passed through the experience of an examination in the New Lecture Hall cannot fail to get a quiver or two out of the cartoon The Retreat from Moscow. To most readers of the Lampoon this will be the appeal to strike him most strongly. A modest Proposal after the pattern of Swift is very amusing. It is enlivened with sketches portraying the dismal fate of the Harvard Undergraduate...
...says Sacrae Theologiae Magister, but I wonder why the "sacrae." Isn't all theology sacred, or supposed to be? I vastly prefer your interpretation of the mystic initials as Master of Scientific Theology. Now if you will only change my useless B. D. (Bachelor of Divinity) to mean Darwin Booster, in recognition of my pro-evolution activities, my debt will be double...
...strongest safeguards of the integrity of official action is publicity. This does not mean an espionage of all personal and private actions of Government officials, but it does mean publicity concerning the discharge of the duties which they have been chosen to perform. . . . Publicity is not only the main agency of reform, it is likewise the main agency of prevention...
...Stewart's big face burned crimson. ". . . I say you have no right!" he shouted. "I don't mean to be insulted and I shall leave this room instantly if this goes on?...
...obviously no mean takes to choose from among many millions the four or five who qualify as "greatest", but it may be also true that a foreigner is the man best qualified to judge. One wonders who the fifth person will be to be honored by a place upon Dr. Ludwig's great all American Four or Five. In the four already chosen he has picked representatives of four types of eminence. Edison has served mankind. Jane Addams has helped save it. John D. Rockefeller represents genius and one kind of power. Orville Wright personifies Homeric daring. The fifth choice...