Word: saneness
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Harold Lloyd was not so far from wrong when he described college life in his much maligned moving picture "The Freshman". For such odd phenomena do still persist in spite of all the attempts on the part of the semi-sane to make university life at least half cultural. Indeed, I have discovered by some diligent research in the files of other college papers many gestures of the "just step right up and call me Speedy" variety. For instance...
...student's salvation. Coming into contact perforce with the more radical tendencies outside he receives a wholesome restraint in the classroom. He is there taught principally of the past and thus attains a balance. Two forces, external and academic, guide between the two extremes. The result is a sane, tolerant literary appreciation, loving the past but not eschewing the present...
...losses $660, with plungers "selling short" and conservatives "holding on like grim death" during the recent wild days in Wall street (see BUSINESS). Biggest profits went to Helen Levine of New Rochelle, N. Y., with $3,000. Biggest loser was not announced. Parents applauded Professor Smith's sane device for educating "a woman and her money...
...history rather favors idiots. Napoleon, Luther, John the Baptist, He-siod--they were all idiots. If they had been sane careful bankers and butchers and bakers of buns they would long since have been adumbrated by the shadows of the passing years. They were idiots, and are remembered. None of them complained of his life work, nor did any of them try to convince an Ohio legislature that he was a conformist, a complacent mind, pedestrian on well worn paths...
...Athletic Committee can only be applauded for its appreciation of the University's needs and its choice of means to meet them. This step may be a force in influencing the University administration to adopt an equally sane attitude toward athletics for all. The recent appointment of Mr. Bingham as Director of Athletics with a seat on the Faculty has given grounds for the hope that this attitude is already taking shape, that the day will come when athletics will be regarded as a department of the University on the same footing as the departments of History, Philosophy, and Fine...