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...does not know who he is. Yet, through Brother Nicholas, he has selected two of the University of Washington's presidents. When Chairman Emerson last week declared that he had never even seen Banker Butler, therefore could not be under his influence or in his pay, a few sapient Washingtonians remained unconvinced...
...that it is one pregnant with interest for every on of the ten thousand sons of Harvard who seek, if not victory, at least stellar competition. Forestalling any possible controversy of the nature that disturbed supporters of Army and Navy football not many years since, the wise and sapient authorities of the J. A. A.have voluntarily adopted the three year eligibility rule for their football players...
...sapient observer has observed, "becoming liberal to be conservative." So far has the New Deal shifted the fulcrum of U. S. politics that the old dividing line between Democrats and Republicans is today supplanted by a new line, less regular but more real, between Left and Right, collectivist and individualist, "new socialist" and "old capitalist." In viewing the present Congress, especially the Senate, it is noteworthy that the new liberal complexion derives not only from President Roosevelt but from the old "insurgent" Republicans or Progressives with whom, the old Democratic minority used to work. Out of line with all parties...
...colleges throughout the land last week janitors and charladies began once more to shuffle about their leisurely jobs. Pop-eyed new students and blase old ones busied themselves with multitudinous activities. College presidents delivered themselves of sapient dicta. College merchants once more did business. The Press delivered its annual salutes to learning...
...thief stalked into a room on the 16th floor of a Milwaukee hotel, pointed a rusty revolver at its occupant, University of Wisconsin's sapient President Glenn Frank. He demanded the keys to Dr. Frank's baggage. Backing slowly away as the thief rummaged through his belongings, Dr. Frank got into his bathroom, slammed and bolted the door, shouted for help out the window. The thief fled, without booty...