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...saved today from the ravages of consumption and pneumonia is one more to serve tomorrow as a target for gas waves and poison bombs. Destruction has always been a much more interesting pastime than mere beneficial prevention. This is proved by the popular renown of such geniuses as Attila, Nero, and Guy Fawkes, about whom every student of history reads with a secret feeling of fellowship. On the other hand very few could tell offhand the accomplishments of Laennec, Koch, or Takamine...
...last night as each head proctor strove to outdo the other. Songs by Coach Bill Haines will be the feature in Smith Halls; R. H. Hopkins 2L, head proctor at Standish has engaged a troupe of last year's Pi Eta minstrels to produce a little playlet called. "When Nero Played His Fiddle"; while B. S. Cogan '23, head proctor of Gore, present the Moynahan Brothers as his attraction...
...Have you ever wondered how Nero looked when, purple toga folded about him, he strode from his chariot to the imperial box to give the signal for the Coliseum games to commence ? " I can tell you across the 19 centuries that are but minutes on the calendar of the Almighty, the heritage of Latin blood has not been lost from the Italian loins that sired him and from the Andalusian breasts that he suckled "- What magnificent figure is about to stride across the printed page? For whose entry was this tremendous barrage of rhetoric laid down ? A Mussolini...
...Gentlemen: While the Italian peninsula is under the reactionary storm of Mussolini, the despot impersonating Attila, Caligula, Nero and all the enemies of liberty, we, Italians residing here, strongly protest in the name of civilization against the Yale University entertaining and honoring Gelasio Caetani, a champion of Mussolini...
...unimportant that one gets wondering why the book should have been written at all. Still, as a sincere if at times some-what tedious portrayal of a partic-ular angle of hobohemia, it is recommended to those who still con-sider Greenwich Village a cross between the court of Nero and the Mermaid Tavern. LANTY HANLON−Patrick MacGill−Harper ($1.90). A broth of a boy was Lanty Hanlon, G. H., from the time when he was christened−in whiskey−to the time when he tossed a coin−" Heads I marry her, tails...