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...call our people names, and accuse them of hypocrisy because they want both prohibitory legislation and liquor too is the favorite attitude of Europeans generally, and of a good many persons in this country as well. But . . . the American psychology regarding Prohibition is basically only a form of the sort of make-believe and dressing-up that every child indulges in. No one would think of calling a child a hypocrite because he dresses up as a cowboy or a policeman. Other peoples are, in other respects, just as childlike and naïve in their psychology as the Americans...
...these: A small portion of the Ivy Oration--the last paragraph--was a series of quotations from the Address, slightly modified to cover the existing situation. There was nothing startling about that. Everything from "Give me liberty or--" to the Book of Genesis has been subject to that sort of thing, with small damage to them or the feelings of sensitive listeners. The contention that I was trying to ridicule or undermine the memory of a great figure and a great occasion is unjust, and unwarranted by a single phrase, express or implied, in the Ivy Oration...
...decline of the sort of extracurricular devotion that puts men on three publications and numerous athletic teams is so obvious in college today as to need no elucidation to a college audience, but it has not been properly understood in many private schools. High schools, owing to the decentralization of personnel and their largely vocational nature, have not suffered from this misinterpretation of college life, principally through the accident of an only distant connection with it. By their very refusal to focus their entire attention on college preparation, the high schools have unwittingly avoided mistakes. By their diversity of purpose...
...functions of the American university graduate who studies abroad are generally vague and difficult. More especially when the travelling scholar has been honored in being the recipient of a fellowship is his position troublesome. The establishment of Rhodes scholars and the like as a sort of congenial and unofficial ambassadors to the land of their sojourn has tended to become a reversible reaction, with the result that frequent lamentations have bewailed these men as Caligulas trying to reign in a new Rome and making only a sorry pottage of their distinction...
...accordance with the Vagabond' policy of recommending lectures in the sciences wherever possible, he wishes to point out that Professor Allen will speak this afternoon on "Bird Migration, Its Causes and Methods" at 2 o'clock in room 46 of the Zoological Laboratory. A lecture of this sort while based on accurate scientific investigation is not likely to involve discursions into higher mathematics or other indispensable technical equipment strange to the average undergraduate. Added to the relative simplicity of the scientific background necessary for the comprehension of a lecture of this sort, the wide general interest of a phenomenon which...