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While admittedly a relic from a more spirited age much can be said for a custom of duelling among the litterati. The pen is perhaps mightier than the sword, but putting an opponent to his literary death in monthly instalments contrasts unfavorably with the joy of making one quick lunge which will silence him forever. And the latter is by far the more humane method, since it preserves the blasted litterateurs from a lingering death by starvation or an equally unfortunate turn to the plebian occupation of automobile salesman...
With the decline of almost every other relic of the good old past, however, the peerage has also suffered a perceptible lowering of morale. One can never tell these days who one will sit next to when one drops in at the House of Lords. One's neighbor may be a descendant of some ancient and historic house in the north of Wales, or he may be a remarkably successful groceryman from Whitechapel. It is all most upsetting...
...French baroness, and owner of a rare aviary; Joseph McGoldrick; and Henry Norris. The hoatzin is so rare a bird that few scientific men have ever seen it except William Beebe (TIME, April 7), who tracked it down in British Guiana. It is a primitive type, relic of vanished ages, closely allied to the pterodactyl, first known fossil bird. It has a very strong beak, with which it has been known to break rocks. It swims like a duck, its wings are webbed like a bat's. The newly hatched hoatzin has long claws on its thumb and first...
...widespread discontent with the present mechanical, mass production system. Professor Taylor's college is not the ideal. He does not, for instance, mention such vital necessities as the elimination of hour examinations, in fact of any examinations of the present type; nor of disciplinary measures such as that relic of school days, Probation, so that any student who could not do the work, or who lost interest, would simply be expected to make room for one more suitable. Perhaps, however, such matters are understood...
After all, the seven o'clock nuisance is only a relic of the Middle Ages--a reminder of the bright days when lads and maidens frolicked gaily out to the cow pasture several hours before dawn and had to be safely tucked away by the time the our few tolled--which happened to be several hours before it is considered correct to present one's self at any properly regulated dance. Those sensitive souls who have failed to become immune to the bell, curse its insistent clamor as heartily as the bell-man, doomed to incommode not only himself...