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Encouraged by the results of six tours conducted for Freshmen during the week after the Tercentenary, Arthur Hamlin '34, Curator of the Poetry Room, now plans a second series which will give upperclassmen a chance to stray off the narrow beaten path...
...world already has access to the collected wisdom of its seers. But prefers to live by its inherited folly. This government, for example, has unlimited opportunity to examine into the eternal treacheries of war; yet it has dispatched four battleships to the European waterfront, so that any stray shells might have something solid to bring up against...
...sorts of people, they often speak of their "former Communist" colleague, Scotsman James Watt. The Oxford Groups lay no claim to having a "former Fascist" in their midst, and German Buchmanite baronesses hedge when asked how the movement works in the case of German Jews. Last week, to a stray interviewer from the New York World-Telegram, brisk Dr. Buchman readily declared himself on Fascism, now No. i bugaboo to practically all U. S. churchmen...
...stands superior to them in originality and wit. One of the chief critical charges brought against Sandburg has been that he lacked an integrated philosophy that would guide his writing, that his poems have too frequently been mere expressions of moods, descriptions of street and industrial scenes, echoes of stray opinions overheard in crowds. As a poet he has been like a radio tuned in on several stations at once, getting bits of preaching, bits of political talk, bits of good music, bits of the chattering, discordant static of U. S. urban life. These several voices he has never before...
...Sears are as carefully separated and shielded from each other as girls' and boys' dormitories in a State University. If a representative from either mail house appears to see how things are going, he is admitted only with a plant chaperone to make sure he does not stray out of bounds. Scrap paper and trial pages from the presses are impounded lest prices, layouts or even ideas fall into the wrong hands. Now that the forms are closed and the catalogs are on the presses this precious rubbish can be sold as waste paper. Because of all this...