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...animals, a university hibernates during the summer; and, properly enough, after it awakens in the early autumn, it requires some time to get its blood circulating again. Believing that this before-breakfast sleep-each college year should, by this time, iness characteristic of the beginning of have begun to vanish, the CRIMSON reiterates its invitation to the University at large to use its editorial columns for the public expression of opinion on University affairs. All letters intended for publication must be signed by the writer, and only by special arrangement will they be published anonymously...
...thirty. We thus give stupidity a tel-year handicap over intelligence. Civilization makes the world safe for stupidity. If we give the stuped man a better chance to rear children and multiply his kind than we give the intelligent to multiply his kind then the intelligent will vanish...
...this must vanish into the limbo of forgotten rites. The conviction of the Princeton Borough Council that where there is smoke there must sooner or later be fire is undeniably sound; insurance companies will breathe more freely, and so, one imagines, will the laboring pianist who plays the Wedding March during the death of the heroine. But for those children of Old Nassau--past, present, and future--for whom the rolling smoke cloud has been both a memory and a promise, the edict means the snapping of one more link in the connecting chain...
...have, as a nation, been taught facts rather than the more vital Life. Untold opportunities, have been thrown away in wasted logical energy although some few might be skeptical enough to assert that any sort of logic has long ceased to manifest itself in our schools. But skepticism will vanish before the alluring and signicant program laid out, and our children will grow to maturity with the blessing of knowing how to live life as it should be lived...
...type and arrives as a Freshman with hopes and aspiration high. Through the succeeding years he is subjected to the many temptations around him, succumbing to each in turn, only to be resuced at the last moment by Dame Fortune wearing even more stalwart youth's trousers. His ideals vanish. His "false Gods" topple over. He comes to the conclusion that college has been a failure. A Pollyanna is needed and Professor Henley rises to the occasion. In a long and immature discourse he attempts to justify college, cynically declaring that although its graduates are pretty poor specimens of humanity...