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...make motions. The Liberal Club announces its intention of sending to Congress a petition advocating certain pieces of legislation; you comment, first, ". . . its members are in danger of losing their sense of humor", and last, "What America needs is to be laughed at. . ." . And in the middle, you oracularly assert, "A University is an institution for detached, impartial study of the arts and sciences, contemporary and modern." I repeat...
...lazy and alert, they have no effect whatever. Occupied entirely with his job of making saves-i. e. keeping the puck out of the goal-Chabot is irritated only when he fails to do so. Last fortnight he clubbed a goal judge with his hockey stick for daring to assert that his opponents had contrived to score a goal. He was amused by news that the goal judge was suing...
Aime will seem pretty much of a nincompoop to the unprejudiced. A youth of many talents (he gives promise, at different times, of succeeding as a sculptor, a medievalist, a writer), he is unable to assert himself long enough to give any of his abilities a chance. He dares not tell Marlise of his mistress. Andree, and their child, for he knows that the "iron"' mother would never permit him to marry anyone as poor as Andree. But Marlise. after Aime's death, recognizes all her own qualities in her illegitimate grandson, forthwith makes him her heir...
...King as other than a ruler is out of order. Dabbling in gossip is unworthy of statesmen and characteristic of knaves and servants. All we have a right to demand of the King is that he know thoroughly the needs of the country. It is false doctrine to assert that the King should not even love someone who is helpful and devoted...
...Association of Colleges, owing to the radical difference of our rules from those of the various other colleges. Though in so doing we laid ourselves open to criticism yet an impartial observer must assent on consideration to the expediency of our decision. We did not in the least assert that our rules were the best: nor, as a Yale paper unjustly remarked at the time, did we think them so strictly scientific as to prevent us from contending with other colleges. The adoption of the Rugby game is a sufficient proof that we gladly recognize, the superiority of other rules...