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...either factional or mythical. From childhood up Yeats believed in Ireland's myths more than in its factions, believed also that the Irish, to become a self-respecting nation, would have to develop a literature so eloquent of truths about the Irish race that Irishmen would pore over its books with the intensity they customarily reserved for putting God's curse on the English and each other...
...Gothenburg, Sweden 57 years ago, a student of physics, mathematics and celestial mechanics, listed and starred (voted outstanding by his scientific colleagues) in American Men of Science for distinguished research in stellar motions, statistics and luminosities, Gustaf Strömberg is nevertheless not the kind of scientist to pore myopically over tables and spectrum slides while taking the stars for granted. During the long nights on the mountain overshadowing Pasadena, he has done a lot of unorthodox thinking about the human mind, the human soul, the World Soul, Cosmic Consciousness, Cosmos, God. Now he has published the result...
Harvard has eight "final" clubs, whose members set the pace for the Harvard accent, Harvard "indifference." The Pore is the most exclusive and most awesome of the eight. Preliminary skimming is performed by the Hasty Pudding Club, which each year elects 45 sophomores as Harvard's social cream. The final clubs pick most of their members from the Pudding. The Pore is most likely to elect the sons and relatives of old Porkies, closely examines each candidate's family tree. But congeniality counts as much as pedigree, and the three to 18 members whom the Pore elects from...
...Once a Porcellian always a Porcellian. Porkies keep up their Porkie friendships all their lives, go back religiously to the annual Porkie banquet at which new members are initiated. When a Porkie marries, fellow Porkies always gather round him after the ceremony and sing the club song. From the Pore's clubrooms, non-Porcellians are religiously excluded. In the last 20 years only five men have been excepted from this rule: the Prince of Wales, Al Smith, Herbert Hoover, under Secretary of the Treasury Roswell Magill and onetime Budget Director Lew Douglas, who were wined & dined in the club...
Last week the Pore's new members, un-blindfolded, stole eager glances around their sanctum: at the pair of ivory tusks, brought by Teddy Roosevelt from Africa, the curios gathered from the corners of the earth by many another Porkie, the "busybodies" (V-shaped mirrors) at the windows by which Porkies may sit in their chairs and watch the street, the Long Room, lined from floor to ceiling with books, the banquet chairs, each with the name plate of its donor on the back. Presiding at the banquet was the Pore's grand marshal, Maine...