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...minds of many it is a moot question as to what is the origin of the race of Guanches, the original inhabitants of the Canary Islands and a race now extinct. Some claim that they are descended from the Berbers of Northern Africa, but many on the other hand advance the theory that they are related to the American Indians," said Lt. Col. Charles Wellington Furlong in commenting upon that most interesting conjecture concerning the relationship between the Central American Indians and, certain tribes of Africa. Col. Furlong, who is a noted explorer and author, was a member...
Whether America will take this alien creed to her bosom is a moot query. That Archipenko will arouse violent opinion on both sides is patent. A hint of what he may expect at the hands of orthodoxy was contained in a review by Lucia Fairchild Fuller, A. N. A. (painter), when Archipenko's cubistic statue of a soldier was shown in Manhattan in 1921: "The thing is worthless. Only a fundamental degeneration could have produced it, and it is an ominous sign when any sane human being finds it of interest...
...Poughkeepsie still another contest is to be hotly waged. The Freshman Debating Team is meeting the Vassar contingent on the moot subject of the Allied debt. But there the question of victory is less important for what can one expect? The verdict, in the English manner, is left at the mercy of the audience; unless the debate is waged in a darkened hall, or each member of the audience required to wear blinders, the verdict is pre-determined...
...drop of nearly twenty degrees. With their increase in numbers, the Americans have begun to "assert themselves in every conceivable direction" so that now the whole University is "under the influence of an overwhelming minority of Americans". The president of the Oxford Union and the president of the Moot Club are both Americans and one of the undergraduate journals has been taken over by Americans and is now being run in the true American-Oxonian style...
Silver Bay cannot be too highly recommended as an opportunity to hear able men on-moot questions, and to exchange ideas with students from other universities, as well as with older men. To those who have no ideas or do not specially want them discussed, we recommend Newport or Kalamazoo...