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...clear day, the students of Yali College, Changsha (Yale-in-China), were engaged in a football* game against Boone University of Wuchang. Play was heated; the referee was somnolent; a bullethead from Yali altercated with a slant-eyed Wuchang. Fists flew; both teams stopped to watch the scufflers. Suddenly, into the melee, came pelting a gentleman in a long gown of scholarly silk-Professor Kau (Yali). Forthwith, he smote down the Yali scuffler, strode away...
Osaka, the classic home of the cherry blossom and wickedly slant eyed damsels, become another Goblier Prairie? No doubt the student representatives were asked to address the Uplift Society. It is flattering to the American sense of superiority to find no spot, however remote, which does not honor the American Main Street by careful imitation. Henceforth, the wearied American can find no lotus laden sanctuary. The Old World is imbibing the go-getter philosophy in great draughts; Doctor Frank Crane's volumes are the best American seller in France. Even the Orient, dazzled by magnificent illusions of this wonderland...
Doth** make the mast both creak and slant...
...continued are as broad as humanity; every day he meets new problems; every day he deals with men and women, who are in difficulty or in sorrow, or who need a helping hand to lift them out of life's temptations. And each time he gets a new slant on life and on his fellowmen; each time his sympathy and interest in mankind is rekindled and revivified...
Therefore one expects to find a bias, a slant towards one point of view with which the author is best able to deal, and in this case it is towards the Philosophical. One feels often, as one does in reading the "Achievement of Greece," that too few great artists have spoken in detail on the sculpture, the architecture, the painting and the pottery of the Achaeans. For Genius may talk to Genius across a waste of years, and without words; everyday man can only mechanically analyze and expose--which is, in sum, not art, but archaeology. But this...