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...advantage of every institution of higher learning to emulate this policy, and certainly it would help to realize that "selection of a group of promising students from all economic levels for higher education in the universities" which is "essential for the continued vitality of a democracy."--Daily Trojan (U.S.C...
...Trojan Horse" It has been against Austrian law to shout "Heil Hitler!" for several years. This week Austrian Nazis made themselves purple in the face drifting around Vienna and other Austrian cities in crowds, bellowing hour after hour "HEIL HITLER!" This gave so many Viennese the jitters that all except Fatherland Front demonstrations were ordered stopped by Schuschnigg with Austrian Nazi concurrence, ''to avoid panic...
...Viennese journalists who bustled about Minister of Interior Seyss-Inquart on his return from Berlin, he said: "Because there have been so many misunderstandings. I wish you to say to the whole world that I am no Trojan horse. I do not want the Fatherland Front to become a Nazi Party. I believe in the view that Austria must be an independent, Christian Austria-nothing else but that. Austria will continue on her destined course. No further changes are foreseen now in Austria...
...Homer, or even knowing a line in translation. Yet this poet, called "father of English poetry," and to those who know him second only to Shakespeare in genius, left us an epic poem, a psychological novel done in Fourteenth Century terms, about several of the figures of the Trojan contest, a novel which is as full of the lusty breath of Old England as it is of the wind that swept across the Trojan plains...
...Trojan Horse seemed likely to bewilder more readers than it pleased, another Christopher Morley revision of a classic. Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, gave free play to his quotation-loving mind, resulted in a fat, handsome volume that was interesting reading, valuable for reference. The first Bartlett's was published in 1855, when Josiah Bartlett, then a Cambridge, Mass, bookseller, brought out his personal collection of apt phrases to show "the obligations our language owes to various authors for ... familiar quotations which have become 'household words.' " By 1891 Bartlett had published nine revisions; the tenth appeared...