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...purpose of the Left Wing, it was explained, is to encourage undergraduates, not to shrink from radicalism as such, but rather through frequent discussions to comprehend the various forms it has taken and, perhaps, work out more satisfactory solutions. Unlike the political clubs now existing in the University, the Left Wing will have no definite platforms or policies, but will be one in which all schemes, particularly radical ones, will be expounded, discussed, and revised...
...complaint of many liberals that universities have been too long controlled by business men, rather than by educators has, no doubt, some justification, at least superficially. And as far as educational policies are concerned, this criticism is quite just. There is no reason why the average trustee should completely comprehend the advantages of prescribed hygiene over elective biology--except in so far as he may have observed the results on graduates who have fallen into his hands. It is moreover true that the acquisition of wealth promotes a reactionary spirit; the reddest radical, becomes wealthy, turns into the bluest conservative...
...Mellon Tax Plan. "Notwithstanding the failure of a majority of the Congress up to the present time accurately to comprehend and ex- peditiously to minister to the need of taxation reform, I believe that the requirements of economy and reduced taxes will be met in a way not inconsistent with the great resources of our country...
Naturally enough, a love story ensues in which this curious idealist of the underworld plays opposite the shopgirl, who dimly feels something beyond the flesh, but who can understand clearly only when the flesh is speaking. They quarrel because she cannot comprehend his idealism. They separate. They rejoin again, and for a while it seems as if her way of living triumphs. But in the end it is Carley's ideal that wins. And when he is sent to an insane asylum as a criminal paranoic it is indicated that she understands his attitude. At any rate, she agrees...
...impossible to comprehend the man without remembering that he is Scotch, that he is not only reticent but shy in private life, that his mind is scientifically intellectual, and that few if any men have been able to pass the barrier which he has erected around his inner personality. The late Lord Morley knew him perhaps better than any other man--and Morley was a kindred spirit...Severely intellectual, kind and sympathetic, but unapproachable and never hearty, vigorously honest, passionately devoted to certain ideals, capable of an emotional appeal which was seldom employed--it is not strange that...