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In the latest issue of "Harpers," John R. Tunis, famous for his keen attacks on modern college foibles, directs a satirical barrage against the "Modern Intellectual." He presents as a composite of certain characteristics in colleges today a fictitious professor in a fictitious western university, both devoid of tradition and...
Far from being an apologist for eastern methods, Mr. Tunis offers for examination two educational systems exactly opposite in their ideals. By his juxtaposition and treatment of his subjects he intimates that one is as undesirable as the other, that the ideal university should not be characterized either by scholasticism...
Eastern colleges should find little comfort in Mr. Tunis's article, for they must admit both the charges to a certain degree. Although most eastern universities possess many courses of undeniably modern scope, the general tendency is to look into the past with such absorption as to be blinded to...
The announcement last week of the final pacification of Libya was a matter of great concern to France. Stirred were old Franco-Italian rivalries focusing on the north coast of Africa. France's rich fertile Tunis is only 90 miles from the tip of Italy's island, Sardinia...
Off to the wars in Manchuria went famed War Correspondent Floyd Gibbons for Hearst's Universal and International News Services. From Tunis, where he had been basking pleasantly, high-strung little Karl Von Wiegand hurried by boat, train and plane to Mukden on summary orders from Hearst headquarters. Frederic...