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...Only those institutions which are named in " Carnegie List" as universities or colleges shall be regarded as such in the application of the preceding paragraph, with the addition of West Point and Annapolis...
...leading position is given to an article by Walter D. Edmonds, Jr., called "The Gum-Didderators of Football." Besides the tocsin sound of the title, the author provides a further alarum by the use of "jugglingatoriums" in the third paragraph. The problem of the importance of the game of football in the program of American higher education is a vexed one; Mr. Edmonds' distinguishing contribution to the discussion is a decree that "big" games are all right--because they have some part in the prevention of hardening of alumni arteries but that they should be kept among friends and neighbors...
Sirs: Under LETTERS in your issue of Sept. 28, your answer to Mr. Barlow Henderson's letter regarding the calling of a Negro "Mr." is really funny. The first paragraph of Mr. Carl E. Guthe's letter (on same page) seems to fit your case quite adequately : "where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise...
...words annoy me greatly in your issue of Sept. 7, Page 10, centre column: "Incarnadined" is too long and fancy a word for such a plain paragraph. On the same page "grooved only with the austere colophon." You are reading the dictionary too much. Page 30 - last two lines : "shoveled into the ground at Potter's field." Very inaccurate ; a corpse is too big to shovel handily. WM. E. CLARK...
...your subscribers and in the interest of truth will you allow me to present to your readers a few comments upon the paragraph in Column 1, Page 5, of your issue of Sept...