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...Nothing is so easy in this life as to spatter mud or cavil. There has been a good deal of loose talk on the subject of the Board of Overseers and one constantly has to listen, often with weariness, to counsel of perfection when the annual printed list of suggestions appears, But let me ask again--would it be easy to improve on the list of men now in office? To be sure, it might be preferable--in the sense that they would be able to give more time to the duries if more mute inglorious Miltons were chosen instead...
...While in China I bumped into a war," he told me, "and I wanted to see how it felt to be under fire again. They certainly are stupid fighters : I stood behind a temple wall and let a sharpshooter spatter bullets all over it. He never came within a mile of me! "My wife, though, got into more serious difficulties. She went out walking one day and just as she was enjoying the scene, the Chinese thought they'd start their war, and she found herself between the armies. Fortunately a shell that struck three feet from her proved...
...fruitful soil for farming and for journalism. The public likes it. The populace enjoys seeing mud from a rolling wheel spatter the honest citizen. In journalism, as in commerce, there are always some ready to pander to the public taste...
...introduction from instructors were to be substituted for the wage-earning qualities of a Ph.D., the inordinate desire for extra letters of the alphabet to place after one's name would largely disappear. Finally, if degrees were treated as secondary in importance, if colleges gave up the ambition to spatter their catalogues of faculties with doctor's titles, the present commercializing of the degree would stop. Unless some method of prevention is adopted, and adopted soon, by the American universities of high standing, the abuse will prove hydra-headed with the founding of each new institution, and like the hydra...
...most significant athletic symposium of modern times will be pulled off this afternoon on the Freshman diamond shortly after the sun strikes four o'clock. At precisely that moment the Arterial Pen Pushers will attempt to spatter CRIMSON ink over the much-heralded Phi Beta Kappa nine...