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...Beard has merely striven for understanding, a pause to look back and glance at the balance sheet of our present day civilization. In the confusion of the days events, the average Rotarian, rarely finds the moments, or grasps the isolated opportunity to see spread before him the wide vista presented by the present day world and its components. Life is too short! The view is too limited! But aided by a group of eminent men in all fields Mr. Beard has accomplished this height from which the average human can view, undistorted by philosophical sophistry, or modes and trends, contemporary...
...school, and in spite of the fact that a good deal of what he says is patently untrue, or at least misleading, it must be admitted that his theses are never anything but plausible. The best traditions of English letters seem to present to him an endless and enchanting vista of abstract crockery to be broken with loud pagan snorts and bellows, and while he not infrequently builds an elaborate argument of disproof where a simple "What of it?" would suffice, there is always that much more amusement for the occupants of the ringside seats...
...prizes are offered to the undergraduate in any college who submits the best poem or group of poems, the number of lines not to exceed 200. These poems must be submitted not later than May 15 to Witter Bynner, 342 Buena Vista Road, Santa Fe, New Mexico...
...parades in the French Revolution. What modern panorama is so much like the march to Versailles as the sight of those crowds which billow and surge down Boylston Street, filling every square, inch of the lane between Smith Halls and the subway walls? Thousands mill around thousands and the vista as far as eye can reach in November dusk is one of bobbing heads and shoulders...
...Colonel Jefferson Davis was severely wounded at the battle of Buena Vista...