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...shutting its ears to all talk of the war, America is not a whit different from other countries. To a large part of the world the very sound of the word has become anathema. What shall be said, then, when but six years after the close of one tremendous catastrophe, Mr. Villard, the editor of the Nation, returns from Europe and in a speech last Sunday night predicts another by next April? Have people's sensibilities become so dulled that they are unable to conceive of another war germinating out of the war to end wars...
Nevertheless, John is no whit daunted. His flint-lock is loaded to the muzzle, his pistol is by his side, and every wary instinct is more fully aroused than ever. He has thrown open his arena to the bull-dog today, the better to entrap him; and it will be a lucky bulldog who does not have to be dragged out again by the heels...
...Parade of the Wooden Soldiers", which has been played to death by dance orchestras everywhere, seems new and different when accompanying the clockwork manoeuvers of the pipe-clayed actors. Balieff, of course, is inimitable; no one could rob his "apparition on the stage", as he says, of one whit of its originality or its unique humor. One is reconciled to the end of each scene only by the knowledge that this master comedian will reappear for one of his nonpareil curtain-talks, and when he actually joins the unspeakable "Russian Vocal Quartet" for a few flourishes, he raises the roof...
...special series of student affairs takes up the question of the University War Memorial from the student point of view, and advocates a gymnasium in preference to a chapel or a purely ornamental memorial. A special feature of the number is "The Pink Pitten", a Christmas sketch by Ter Whit Willaby...
This modern organization of Don Quixotes has discarded armor for pillowcases without losing a whit of real mediaeval spirit. They trudge today in the footsteps of the noble Dou--but all in secret and mystery. In its own words the Ku Klux Klan is "a secret and militant organization". Whenever possible its true name is kept silent in the presence of those unfortunate enough not to be members. In proselyting, both in the University and elsewhere, it is attractively garbed as "an organization of one hundred percent Americans", with the reservation that they be, "native born citizens of the United...