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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...believe you will agree with me that McReynolds is the type of man who should be President. Then, why not call the public's attention to him and let it weigh his merits and give thought to his qualifications...
...Jewish mental, ethical and religious equipment is of a simple rugged type which takes its set so rapidly that a Jewish boy is considered "of age" at 13. The more delicate and fragile European type seldom takes a mature set before the age of 24. This means eleven years' advantage in hardness and maturity on the side of a Jewish boy whose competitor is a European type...
...Harvard telescope will be a reflector also, in which a concave mirror sixty inches in diameter replaces the convex lens of the more familiar, or refracting type. The mirror faces the star and, as it is concave, or dish-shaped, the light rays converge after being reflected from it. They are reflected to the side of the instrument by a second, flat mirror, in one type, and are brought to a focus on a photograph plate, or in an eyepiece, if the telescope is being used visually...
Where Anthony Comstock was a berserk lion of purity, Mr. Sumner dislikes being thought of as a reformer. His smile and forbearance are of the efficient Y. M. C. A. type. With affability, not anger, does he discountenance the evildoer. In the performance of his duties, he avoids "scenes" by working hand in glove with Manhattan's district attorney, at present, one Joab H. Banton, whose definition of art is "the beautiful as opposed to the realistic," who regards certain plays of Sophocles as indecent, who says, "My God, if Christianity has not advanced us beyond the stage...
...which he is not taking and should go back to his fraternity room, read it and think about it, he would be judged a queer fellow. And probably he would be. Scholarship today seems to be an affair for the shut-ins and queer fellows." He described the fraternity type of student: "Facile in the classroom and ready with answers in emergencies . . . superficial . . . the fellow who comes to class with a hangover and gets by, nevertheless. . . . Fraternity men, with their social advantages and intellectual capability, should form the nucleus of the group of creative personalities...