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...this calm appropriation of her brainchild. It is true, however, that there have been and still are voracious readers of this drivel. Over half a million copies of Pollyanna were sold, it was translated into five languages, including Japanese, and a Finnish edition is now under way. A prodigious mushroom crop of "Glad dubs" sprang up in its wake, and innumerable families were afflicted with "glad" little girls who, when a bee stung them, were glad it wasn't two bees...
Panaceas. It was apparent that something had to be done. On the 73rd ballot, a crop of mushroom panaceas came up. It was proposed...
...picturesque campus incident has brought to light a widespread complaint on the part of British "university men" against the Americanization of Canada's colleges. They point, for example, to the Greek letter fraternities, which in the last 20 years have enjoyed a mushroom growth at Toronto, McGill, etc. Oxford and Cambridge afford no precedents for such silly, bourgeois performances, say the university men. In fact, the whole of Canadian university life, they say, is unpleasantly infected with the American extra-curriculum...
...With the mushroom growth of university stadiums during the past decade football, at least, has assumed the outward appearance of a great entertainment staged for the amusement of the public and the financial benefit of the college. In substance the amateur spirit has resisted the most obvious encroachments, but any approach to the methods of professionalism calls for immediate rejection. The proposal for a league organization of baseball among the eastern colleges seems to be just such an approach. In the bitter and prolonged competition for the league championship that would undoubtedly result, the position and powers of the coach...
From the recent mushroom growth of Harvard recollections, it is evident that the University is not to be allowed to forget that "You are old, Father William", and furthermore that there have been ravages as well as advances during the aging process. Dean Donham, in an interesting study of how the times have changed, numbers among the ravages the introduction of the fearful cafeteria. Granting that this soul-killing institution does devastate many a good, home-bred stomach, there be defenders who may well argue that it is better to snatch and run at a cafeteria, than to snatch elsewhere...