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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...scene of his remarkable travels is neither Brobdingnag nor the Houyhnhnms--but the more pertinent Mars. Daily letters describing in detail the condition of Martian life and Martian morals have been published in El Sol. Baraglas inferences of Mars correspond suspiciously with the present state of Spanish affairs. "Ninety percent of the Martians are soldiers and the rest are compelled to work...
...that the hour of hoarse spellbinders has at length passed? Wholesale tilting against windmills is over. Campaign literature can now light the first winter fires; and the much shouted at burger can return to straphanging and the comics. Best of all, the tumult has availed but little. Forty five percent of the voters will vote as their grandfathers did, forty five percent will vote as their husbands dictate, and the other misled ten percent will vote intelligently. Yet it is those few who will make of today another interesting episode in the drama of American life...
Aside from the fling at Eve, there is some justification for Dean Greenough's remarks on athleticism versus scholarship. Only 17.9 percent of all upperclassmen last year obtained honor grouping of any description. This is not a record of capacity, but of accomplishment. It would be preposterous to think that more than four-fifths of the upperclassmen are actually unable to meet the requirements for honors. The simple fact is that too many are content with merely satisfactory grades. A man who devotes himself to studies, and nothing else, is thought one-sided. And the opinion is not without foundation...
...hundred percent Americans have flung another insult in the face of the alien. In solemn council the descendants of the ferocious Iroquois Indians of New York and Canada have decided to institute a movement to cast off the white man's God and the white man's civilization. When theatre crowds are bustling along the noisy streets of Buffalo and Montreal, the forests will look upon familiar scenes from the past. While sacred fires shed an eery glow upon the pines, red men will dance as of old, with mystic rite and stately tread, chanting their hymns to the Great...
...true I can say that a majority of the men in college who make the first group are students who are concentrating in the Classics. Their study sharpens the wits and increases the scholarship that is latent in everyone. Of all the men who concentrate in Classics 75 percent have the ambition and desire to try for distinction, which is a far higher percentage than in most departments...