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...last letter I promised to send you an account of the Qua Quan Quot, the scoral organization that once made itself felt in the Inca University. At the outset let me explain that the last word, Quot, seems to be translatable somewhat like the Latin "volgus" or Greek "polloi" and may be rendered in English as "herd" or "clan". It was often used by the Incas to refer to cattle, though in this case it seems to imply some sort of men. The significance of the other two words is unknown...
...usual, most of our knowledge must come from the secret archives of the university; but the manner in which we first got on the trail of the Qua Quan Quot was peculiar, not to say gruesome. I was digging on the edge of the eliff overlooking the Urubamba Canyon when my pick struck on a rock that rang hollow. By careful investigation, I finally discovered the entrance to a cave, halfway down the cliff, and almost inaccessible from above. My adventures in entering the cave might fill a volume. The mouth had been completely stopped...
This letter is so long-drawn-out already that I shall have to reserve my account of the Qua Quan Quat, the Inca secret organization, until my next letter. Cordially yours...
...University reader exempt from this classification. Theoretically we should furnish an approximation to that ideal public which the journalists claim is the sine qua non of an ideal newspaper; practically we are among the consistent devotees of the scare headline; we, too, are afflicted with the prurient curiosity" mentioned by Mr. Storey. Yet the fact that the more stable journals find a considerable sale in the University indicates that we read the lurid sheets for amusement rather than for information...
...candlestick makers who either drain the paternal pocket-book dry or else put in all their spare time doing odd jobs in order to get the wherewithal. But one of these groups--usually against their will--gets dragged into the newspapers, or else frequents places where money is sine qua non. The other sort nobody sees or hears of. And so Princeton becomes a sanitarium for weary week-enders and Harvard a millionaires' club. A chance for an Extension course in Logic...