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...enchanting interpretations of Lafcadio Hearn. It has given way to the push of the Babbitt. An American Main-Streeter, member of the college friendship pilgrimage which has just completed an exploration of the modern Japan, is the only one who can properly eulogize the new soul of the Orient...
...however remote, which does not honor the American Main Street by careful imitation. Henceforth, the wearied American can find no lotus laden sanctuary. The Old World is imbibing the go-getter philosophy in great draughts; Doctor Frank Crane's volumes are the best American seller in France. Even the Orient, dazzled by magnificent illusions of this wonderland of material prosperity forsakes its tradition of philosophic detachment, and its business men burn the ancestral red fire before the clay-footed idol of Efficiency...
...Brooks '26, another track man, will leave this country shortly for a trip of a year or more around the world. They are making the trip as the guests of Lord and Lady Astor, the latter being Brooks aunt. Before sailing from San Francisco for the Orient in mid-October they will be the guests of Douglas Fairbanks for a few days...
...York University, reiterated his solemn warning to the world against overpopulation, urged an ethical birth-control and a curb upon migration. Rear Admiral William L. Rodgers, U. S. N., took the occasion to predict a clash of yellow and white men in Australia when America and the Orient overflow their Continents, and also pointed a finger of suspicion at Japan for the late Philippine disturbances. Suave Tsurumi avowed Japan's innocence...
...first to speak was Sir Valentine Chirol, onetime foreign Editor of The London Times and Royal Commissioner on Indian Public Service. His theme was The Reawakening of the Orient. Said he: " Never before has the white man stressed the color bar as he does today ? never before has the Orient denied his claim to racial superiority as it does today. . . . Hostility to all foreigners has never been so deliberately and insolently displayed as it is today...