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...daily themes, occasional long compositions, and a novel, provide excellent opportunity for literary experimentation. But one cannot help feeling that Professor Hurbut would be a better guide to his students if he lived less in the literary past. While it is greatly to his credit that he should profess an admiration for the works of Jane Austen and the eighteenth century authors, it is less to his credit as an instructor that he should at the same time proclaim so complete an ignorance of Michael Arlen and his ill if only for the sake of pointing out the absurdities...
...examination. My impression is that most of the harping on the need of making the way into college more difficult is a smoke screen behind which members of college faculties are concealing their inability to impart to others the knowledge and interest they possess in the subjects which they profess. They are, of course, quite justified in doing this if the college exists, as some seem to think, for the sake of the professors...
...true. This possibility religious bigots deny. Truth to them is a tiny wad, and they claim to have it all. Such a conflict will do much to discredit religion. The real enemy, however, is not religion itself, but the obnoxious and blighting egotism of some of those who profess...
...That membership must be open to all who profess themselves Christians according to the so-called "evangelical" manner-i.e., Baptist, Congregationalist, Methodist, Presbyterian and the like...
...lapse of over a year, with an issue to be published on Tuesday, April 28. Contrary to the custom of past years, the Gadfly will deal specifically with criticisms of various phases of University life. Poetry, dialogues, and essays, all contribute ideas about University problems, and though the editors profess to inquire what is the matter with the University, an impartial point of view has been observed as far as possible...