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Human Hairlessness. "If you were respectable anthropoid apes catching your first glimpse of a specimen of man, your modesty would be shocked by the spectacle of his obscene nakedness. Indeed, even to man himself it is a well-nigh insupportable sight, unless he be a savage devoid of culture, or a nudist devoid of sensibility...
...nations are prepared to make a sincere effort to deal with the Spanish problem in a spirit of real .international cooperation. ... In such conditions no one can complain if the patience of those who have striven to keep their responsibilities toward Europe constantly before them is well nigh exhausted. I for one, should certainly not be prepared to utter a criticism of any nation which . . . felt compelled to resume its freedom of action...
Afore you was dry behind the ears I'd been stirrin apple butter nigh unto forty years. You aint got no call to be initiatin any new fangled sacieties that your elders knowed about fore they ever thought of you. But tain no bad idee at that an' I'm for it. You kin put my name down as a charter member and since you aint goin to charge no nitiatin fee I thenk mebbe one or to other old timers thats done their share of stirrin in these parts 'll come in too. Write...
...year being nigh, Economics A is about to lift its heavy hand off 734 odd persons, and the students are able to count up what they have gained and lost in the largest course in the college. Always the target of a shower of slings and arrows, the course has rarely been pricked so hard and so often as this year. The instructors are tempted to hide behind an old shield, their lack of time to give to the students due to the painful crimping of the Department budget, but a large missile marked "disorganization" cannot be thus dodged...
That the inoculation will not be a mere injection of the needle is obvious in the nigh-failure of the independent reading system here at Princeton. The success of this month's reading period will prove to a degree whether or not Princeton may be compared with Harvard in the realm of intellectual curiosity and integrity...