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...player on the Freshman Hockey team will have any moments of rest on Saturday afternoon when the whistle blows for the face-off against the Eli yearlings. A comparison of scores is noncommittal, and the experience of last year's Freshman sextet shows that the outcome of a game cannot be considered a certainly...
...comparison of the two years...
...sensuality.' To a newspaper reporter I pointed out that the author of the book has been dead five years, that the entire East Side mourned at his funeral. Said I: 'I feel that this book, which you consider a degraded piece of work, is worthy of comparison with the finest confessions of the soul of all time. I feel it is about time for Jews to stop carrying chips on their shoulders. Through the ages they have preserved their inferiority complex.' As proof that I hold no animus against the Jew, I pointed out that...
...venality They stand on their own feet. They freely determine their own policy. Vague and unthinking complaints about a "commercialized press" fail to notice that newspapers able to live on their own income have the great moral advantage of being free from even the suspicion of venality. By comparison with the subsidized or bribed press too common in Continental Europe the "commercialized" American press has a good deal to be thankful for. N. Y. Times...
...Keyes does not see Mr. Johnson's special qualifications for the Presidency and that is quite natural. There seems to be a concerted effort on the part of the eastern newspapers to ridicule Senator Johnson and to brand him a hopeless incompetent. Yet a comparison of Mr. Johnson and Mr. Coolidge will always result in the former's favor. Elected by a powerful machine Mr. Coolidge as Governor of Massachusetts showed little more than that he was a conscientious executive. Mr. Johnson, elected Governor of California by his own efforts with the aid of only one newspaper, revested...