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...Graham, and Shaw. For Jane Austen we shall have (let us hope) David Garnett and for Leslie Stephen, Lytton Strachey! It will not be as easy to follow the literary scientists and philosophers; somehow William James and Santayana and Bertrand Russell do not suggest the heights of the ancient Olympus. But they, along with Neitzsche, make better reading. Possibly one thinks too much of those beautiful Victorian beards. But as I write this I think of Havelock Ellis who has the beard, the science, and the literary style too. From this group we cannot exclude Henry Adams...
Last week, Predicter Pierce was asked to predict further. Pleased, Predicter Pierce said he would "invoke Parnassus and jostle Jove on high Olympus for insight into the future." Then came his prophecies...
...Freshman. When he comes to Harvard he is in no way urged to yield up that individuality merely for the sake of conforming. There are either three thousand types of Harvard graduates or there is none. The Harvard type is a phantom type, its residence in Olympus or Hades, its character mythical. In four years the Freshman who now explores the cis-Charles regions will leave college with many new and changed ideas, but he will leave as much an individual as when he first entered to grow in wisdom...
...Jove, Author Halliburton explains, angrily tossing thunderbolts because a whimsical, gay, incorrigible, dramatic, inspired, etc. young Amercian is at the beetling, rugged, sacrosanct, fierce, rugged, granite pinnacle of Mt. Olympus and proposes to spend the night...
...they said, "might have dictated the answers to these questions and spared the authors the trouble of looking them up." This 95-percenter was energetic Editor Herbert Bayard Swope of the World, among whose favorite pastimes is sitting, a sharp-witted, rufous Zeus, among lesser immortals of his metromundane Olympus, being "it" (all alone) in a game of Nebuchadnezzar. When Ask Me Another! was published last week it contained 30 general quizzes and 10 special ones. Editor Swope did better on "Current Politics," getting 96%. Grantland Rice produced an immaculate 100% on "sports." Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick tallied no errors...