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...undergraduate need not feel that he is conspicuously different from others, if he makes an effort to be politically well informed. In fact the best educated citizens pride themselves on their knowledge of current politics. The feeling that a real gentleman should hold himself aloof from the vulgar activities of politics has disappeared long...
...their relation to each other rapidly and fatally changing. To the quiet, religious young girl Chicago is a brutal nightmare; to the coarser-grained young man it is gloriously American, "the voice of the great old century we live in." To her his friends, their host and hostess, are vulgar and almost disgusting; to him they are fascinatingly alive. She breaks the engagement, but "puts a good face on it" till after dinner. America doesn't "pass by": it stays and does its deadly work...
...idea that college social service work is a theoretical dabbling in the social problems of a big city, and that it is simply "slumming", which has come to be synonymous with vulgar curiosity and condescending meddling, is wrong, as the men who did work of this sort last year will testify. There are man-sized jobs waiting for men to take them, in this field. Social service as conducted by Phillips Brooks House is not play, but earnest work, replete with opportunities for tact and executive ability, and full of real problems...
...have learned much from German scholars about historical 'objectivity' and the niceties of historical criticism; what we receive, when we look for an application of these principles to contemporary events, is a clumsy complication of fictions, irrelevancies, and vulgar appeals to what are apparently conceived to be American prejudices.'" (Boston Evening Transcript...
...fact that such questions as the relative merits of Napoleon and Cromwell were ever argued between its walls. The article on Princeton Customs, by Mr. Hunter of the Nassau Literary Magazine, is interesting enough to members of this staid old College where Rinehart nights are the chief vulgar amusement. But even at Princeton, customs are following in the path of Bloody Monday Night, which leads us to believe that Harvard is not alone so priggishly indifferent to youthful effervescence after all. "The Function of P. B. K." (if the printer has no Greek letters, why can't it be written...