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...become a Doctor of Philosophy, a scholar must write a thesis making at least one original contribution to human knowledge. This grows harder (or sillier) every year. Students thrilled last week to read about Thomas Walsh Jr. of Chicago, a student who gave his life for his Ph.D. Chemistry Student Walsh and his friend Harold Foard of West Virginia left Huanuco, Peru in November to explore the unknown headwaters of the Paute River in Southern Ecuador, to gather data for Walsh's doctorate. For two years they had been in Oroya, Peru on the staff of New York...
Later, the New York World, said: " It would be hard to say which was the sillier-Rupert Hughes . . . or those other guests of the occasion who took the outbreak seriously enough to get vocally angry about it. ... [In addition to what Mr. Hughes said,] Washington also kept hens and a dairy. He was thus a rich butter-and-egg man from the South; but so to describe him would be a long way from characterizing the Washington that matters...
...Manhattan colyumists. Said Hammond: 'The keynote speech of Congressman Burton. . . an aged man, was a complete assemblage of all the honest and senile platitudes. . . It was the longest, dullest speech that I have ever heard.' Said Adams: 'Over the radio, applause for a platitude sounds even sillier than it does when you're one of the applauders yourself...
Stephen Leacock conclusively proved last evening in the Union that literature is getting sillier and sillier--he proved it so conclusively that the appreciative crowd of students from the University and Radcliffe that packed the Living Room was kept in a continuous uproar of merriment. Professor C. T. Copeland '82, introduced the speaker...
...various members of the different classes. Just why any persons of intelligence sufficient to entitle them to a place in the college should wish to indulge in such a practical joke it is really hard to understand. Certainly, as far as the joke was concerned, nothing could be sillier; and the only amusement of the inventor or inventors of this piece of mischief must have sprung from the knowledge that they had put a few men to some trouble...