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Despots and dictators are formed in the same mould; last week, "Ghazi" Mustafa Kemal Pasha, President of the Turkish Republic, announced that it was his pleasure to divorce his wife, Latife Hanoum. And with no more formality, except the possible signing of a document, she was divorced...
...races and colors that defies amalgamation. The only unifying influence is the study of Law; outside of the classroom and the library there is no common interest to bind the students together. Nearly all colleges place their stamp upon their graduates; the men come here already hardened to the mould, and there is no change in them through the three-year course except that wrought by nature...
...with independence and vigor." It is a tradition that Harvard undergraduates as well as graduates indulge and are encouraged in independent thought and free speech, and that they are less restrained than the men of some other colleges, who are encouraged to live think and speak in the established mould. It has frequently been said that Harvard men can be found on every side of every question. This independence and individuality may be a source of pride, but it does not always contribute to team-play and, when too vociferous, it is frequently embarrassing to the University...
Wrenched out of its original psychological pattern and set into a dainty mould that would presumably appeal to local tastes, the present version simply does not make sense. The poor girl is burdened with all sorts of Grundyisms. She is made just nice enough to be impossible...
...brutish or commercial traits obliterate the human and academic nature. The attempt to infuse a strong dose of business training into the sluggish veins of impractical humanism destroys, rather than modifies the academic nature of the college. The professors of commercial science seem determined to scrape the ivy and mould from off the academic wall, and to replace aesthetics by the applied philosophy of the "go-getter...