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...Plaint of The Stag...
...late become stereotyped, is a charge often repeated. Business and bridge are the talk of the town, even that section which has had the advantage of a college training. In the current Harper's, Albert Nock, one-time editor of the uncompromising and now deceased Freeman, brings this plaint again into prominence. The stock market has over cast music. Work and Whitehead flourish in place of politics as topics of conversation...
...Depew's three living classmates made no public plaint or protest. They may have pondered wistfully the oblivion which time brings to all men. They may have reflected sadly, "And some day even Chauncey will have been forgotten." They may have wondered which of them would outlive the others, perhaps to be chaired around Yale Field mid cheers and bunting as Oldest Living Graduate. At all events, in their three corners of the country, Mr. Depew's three living classmates held their aged peace. They were: Dr. Virgil M. Dow, retired medico of New Haven, Conn.; James L. Rackleff, lawyer...
...between two Tabanidae see classification of Diptera a house fly and a horse fly, having it out through the screen, and by two bits off free verse. One poet thinks that the "buttercup virginity" of the faculty would be more poignant if it could be "decently lyrical." Perhaps this plaint may sting some "mute inglorious Milton" to verse. After all Homer begged his way through seven cities. The vernal note is again struck in a final celebration of James Christopher Grant reading Plato's "Kriton" to the undulations of his rocking chair. When he gets through with the "Crito...
This is the old familiar plaint of those who are continually weeping over the American college. It is shown that if a man receives a real education at college, he does so in spite of the college and not because of it. Statistics are produced to show that the billiard room of the Harvard Union is more popular than its library; that only six men submitted essays in the Union essay contest, while over one hundred entered its bridge tournament. The doubtful inference is drawn that the college is responsible for this deplorable state of affairs...