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Another large section of the Report deals with American social life in the period immediately preceding the final catastrophe, and it should furnish fascinating reading not only for the social scientist but also for students of folklore and primitive religion. The survival of totemism as late as the twentieth century has often been disputed, but is now established as a historical fact. Newhaven and Princeton were the homes of the Bulldog and Tiger totems respectively, and these wild bands fought incessantly over the ground that had been formerly consecrated to learning. Evidence of totems at Cambridge is lacking;--there...
...Totem poles, collapsing airplane of colored glass, a kult room, a hall of children's painting, a collection of bicycle parts, window panes, scraps of roofing material, were all part of an exhibition of modern Art in Berlin, free from all limitations of jury. The kult room was the heart of the exhibition. A sign, "Keep off the Tapestry," warned spectators off the Navajo rug on the graveled floor. A square white column, carefully off-center, held up the roof. The rear wall consisted of a sheet of plate glass end-on to the room, an "S"-shaped strip...
...Totem and Taboo...
Brown is to have a bronze bear at a cost of $10,000. Already $5,000 has been raised under the slogan: " A bronze bruno for Brown." The statue is being modeled from an exceptionally intelligent beast in the New York Zoo. Yale is threatened with a similar totem of the dog. Princeton is to have a live tiger. But Harvard has never really taken to the donkey. She prefers John Harvard, a square-toed young Puritan of a species which has no living representatives for photography or sculpture...
...wearing of distinctive regalia is inborn in man. The uniform of the soldier, the dangling animal fob of the club man, or his totem tie, the modestly flamboyant key of the scholar, all these symbolize man's reverence for distinctive decorations. The caps and gowns of the Seniors are sensible manifestations of this inherent feeling. They mark him out, that his classmates may know him as one of them and that the rest of the world may admire...