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Below is the first of a series of six articles on Oxford University, England, written especially for the Crimson by Andrew Vincent Corry '27, of Butte, Montana, now in his second year at Merton College, Oxford, as Rhodes Scholar from Montana. The remaining five article will appear daily in the Crimson...
Some day, perhaps, a companion volume will be written. It might be a sort of Who's Who in two parts: 1) sketches of famed U. S. people, according to the opinion of the average U. S. inhabitant, or rather according to the composite opinion of the majority of average U. S. inhabitants; 2) accurate, factual sketches of these same famed U. S. people, written by competent, unbiased observers...
...chasm from a plant to a man, is filled up with divers kinds of creatures, rising one above another, by so gentle an ascent, that the transitions from one species to another are almost insensible. . . . The ape is this rough draught of man: this rude sketch. . . ." Indeed Wesley had written A Survey of the Wisdom of God in the Creation: or, A Compendium of Natural Philosophy. But he did not altogether desert superstition for science: among the 725 prescriptions for 243 diseases listed in his Primitive Physick: or, An Easy and Natural Method of Curing Most Diseases is the remedy...
...financial world in a depressed condition, with call money bringing 25% to 30%. Interested, able, he wrote an article showing the unsound condition of U. S. banking, likening the U. S. banking system to European banking during the Renaissance. Seeing no chance of publishing a critical essay written by a stranger, an alien, he put his paper in a desk-drawer, where it remained for four years. But in 1907, on the advice of Professor Seligman of Columbia University, he brought the article up to date, sent it to the New York Times, saw it in print. Soon the Panic...
Burges Johnson, 51, has written pleasant books for children and for grownups, too-Bashful Ballads, The Bubble Books, etc. From 1915 to 1926, he was professor of English at Vassar College (female), where his courses were well liked. Last week, he made a speech in Chicago: "There no longer are any effective cuss words. Profanity is just a greeting, an indication of closest friendship and regard." Professor Johnson is now on the payroll of Syracuse University...