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...well nigh a quarter of a century the University has had a keen and sympathetic observer of her sons' manners and morals in the dapper person of Arthur Clement, smokeshop philosopher. His services to undergraduates, by no means confined to the realm of nicotine, have included such strictly extra-curricular acts as bailing erring wanderers from jail at early hours of the morning and keeping life in the indigent by timely extension of credit. His remarks anent discussed gastronomic situation at the University may therfore be regarded as words of rare wisd m prepart will, the fruit of long experience...
...under the protection of the British Empire. The Mosquito kings, thus formally established in their throne, ruled until 1894 a nation of 8000 Indians, never realizing that their dynasty was the fictitious product of English statecraft. Even recently, Hendy, a Mosquito Pretender, plotted in utter seriousness to regain the realm of his ancestors...
While Mexico and the U. S. fought (1848), Sutter kept his realm neutral and intact; even increased it by a tract "24 hours square." California was ceded and he smoked in peaceful reverie, thinking at last of his wife, his children, his oldtime comrades.... He sent for her and them, begging forgiveness with letters of credit which were but footnotes of his prosperity. While waiting for them, he busied himself with a new sawmill up on Sutter's Creek...
Even the most casual observer of our political psychology must have noticed that there are literally millions of Americans who decline to accept things on faith in the realm of religion, but who do not have the slightest compunction about swallowing the catchwords, phrases, formulas, and slogans that go to make up a creed in politics. They scoff at the miracles of Holy Writ, but are continually looking for the miraculous in government, or what would be miraculous if it ever happened--the conduct of a government according to business principles, for example. Most intelligent people regard as preposterous...
...crop of pedants grew and keeps growing. As part of a regime where one must know so much before he can dares teach, the teacher who has not covered a sufficient territory in the particular realm of roots is at a loss. Nor is he wanted at a university. The degree of Doctor of Philosophy has become the only criterion by which one can easily prove his knowledge of the roots--and, thus, are modern teachers made...