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...however, that wealth is not the lot of college teachers--unless they happily have independent income. It should be made clear, too, that college work is no sinecure. If one goes at it with that idea, or feels himself gravitating towards it as a "sheltered career," he will suffer rude awakening. Nowhere is the strenuous life more demanded, or competition keener, or intellectual sinew and moral fibre more indispensable, or the spirit of consecrated devotion more searchingly tested. If the assay does not in these things show pretty much pure gold the vein will soon be worked out. There...
...Maine Lumberjacks", collected and edited by Roland Palmer Gray of Elmira College, will be published within a week or so by the University Press. Round the camp fires and in the log cabins deep in the Maine Woods, the lumberjacks have for many decades composed and sung a rude poetry celebrating their hazardous life with its trials and its compensations. For the student of poetic orgins and of American life as well as the general reader, these poems are even more interesting than the famous old ballads handed down from our English ancestors. The typography of the book is another...
There was a time in the rude past when the cheering stranger extended his right hand to show that it concealed no treacherous dirk. The skeptic seized it to make sure. Like the doffing of helmets, this medieval precautionary measure has persisted to an age when it is usually unnecessary; the deliberate murderer nowadays shoots with his left hand quite as skilfully as with his right. And with the advance of medical science has come the knowledge that this apparently harmless custom is a dangerous spreader of disease germs. President Coolidge is doubtless acting for the health of the nation...
...effect of the fairy tale, as told by Rudyard Kipling or Lady Gregory is obviously to arouse a feeling of intense patriotism of aversion to the rude outsider--of fellowship with one's own countrymen. And the work of Yeats, Lady Gregory perhaps of Lord Dunsany, who, however, created a mythology quite his own--was evident enough in the reawakening Irish nationalism, long dormant; in the Gaelicising of everything, down to postage stamps--even when a German professor had to be imported to assist. The national Bernard Shaw, realizing full well that the difference between the English and the Irish...
...There was once a light satire which Booth Tarkington wrote, and it was called Magnolia. This is it again, cinemized, burlesqued. Of course it is entirely improbable, but most funny things are. Whereas there was once a lily livered young butterfly chaser, whose hat was stamped on by a rude bully of a rival and Whereas he did not promptly strike that rival dead, he was therefore turned out of the swaggering little Southern town of Magnolia, therefore he Resolved to become a devil among the Mississippi gamblers. A pull at a trigger is to him then as a flick...