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Now comes bitter iconoclasm in the form of "Maguire, Builder of Men," a satirical study by John R. Tunis in the December Harper's. Mr. Tunis has long been a heretic among the orthodoxy of sports writers, but it is doubtful if his pen has ever been sharper. In his...
"Believe it or not," as Mr. Tunis explains, "Doc gets only $6000 a year from the college, exactly the sum a full professor receives. This is frequently mentioned by the college authorities when some one outside twits them about the Doc." But it is not generally known that he also...
Mr. Tunis's portrait will undoubtedly meet a cold reception in many places. It is possibly unfair to individuals whom readers will identify with Maguire. --Boston Herald.
Contrary to the Britisher's notion of civilizing his subjects, the French thesis is that they must interfere as little as possible with the native life in their colonies. The French go-native system has worked extremely well in Tunis and Morocco, badly in Syria, and has now run...
Those in authority will of course laugh. They will produce 67,453 reasons why it is impossible. The idea obviously is absurd. But often those of us who are older are too ready to overestimate our own capacity, assuming that years have brought us wisdom, and too ready to underestimate...