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...least the second strongest of passions and a body of fairly reliable fact has become public property-through indiscreet wives, brazen peepers and sheer accident-with the currency of which the inscrutable ones would not be so foolish as to quarrel. Thus, it is known that one "tomb" is furnished in the acme of masculine comfort, all its furniture being heavily upholstered in black leather; that over a bathtub hangs a portrait in oils of Napoleon; that each "tomb" has its windowless "shrine" or ceremonial chamber where the most unmentionable rites are performed; that the central motive of each brotherhood...
That "Bones" men, at the risk of seeming boorish, may not speak to a soul after leaving an evening's orgy in the tomb, before the next sunup...
That the end of a "Keys" ritual consists in marching out upon the steps of the tomb and singing the society's private song, "Gaily the Troubadour." (Of a frosty winter's evening in New Haven, Conn., or after the wedding of a "Keys" man, auditors of all ages and affiliations whatever will stand to listen to this ringing chanson, the rendition of which is invariably exceptionally fine, as "Keys" seldom fails to enroll one or more of the best voices in each class...
...absorption in the minutiae of the classic languages. Did William James have this in mind when he said to F. C. S. Schiller that "the natural one my of any subject is the professor there-of"? At any rate, specialization in the classics has about succeeded in sealing the tomb of one of the richest sources, if not indeed the richest source, of intellectual and aesthetic stimulation and discipline. May not a too extreme specialization in the teaching of the sciences, of economics and political economy, of education, of literature, work a similar result...
...other words, this building may be a tomb. Or it may have been associated with worship of Kukulcan. God of the Air. There is one more possibility which suggests itself with much force that this peculiar edifice, like the only other round building now known to be standing in the entire Maya area the so-called Caracol at Chichen Itza was an astronomical observatory. Most of the 30 per cent of the Maya hieroglyphs that have been translated relate to the calendar and astronomy of the ancients or to methods of counting. We realize how advanced was the science...