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...detailed context of Mr. Hanford's article there is little to be said. If a maxim is to be offered it is--"Peruse--and contemplate thereon." One learns that, "examination papers will have to be prepared and graded with especial care"; that regular tutorial reading in addition to course reading will continue during the Reading Period--a fact not plainly understood heretofore; that the Library is making plans so as to be able to meet the increasing demands on its shelves; that there will be no "mechanical check on attendance"--possibly the most practical evidence of the University's sincere...
...foolish, attributed to me in these diaries. But that is the way of most diarists, and I have suffered a good deal in the last few years from a variety of them. Words used in jest are treated as if in earnest; words seriously used are torn from their context and therefore having a different meaning, the essentially qualifying phrases invariably being omitted; and then in the inevitable defects of human memory when sentences taken from conversations which lasted an hour or two are casually recorded by men more or less prejudiced...
...eager eyes of men who operate financial news tickers singled out these words, lifted, them from their context and flashed them all over the country to men who speculate in cotton. At once a blizzard of cotton-selling began. In one day's trading, cotton prices dropped off $5.50 to $6 per bale. With 20 million bales the prospective total of their current crop, U. S. cotton growers found themselves some $90,000,000 poorer overnight. Speculators on the "long" side of a previously rising market found themselves sore stranded...
...eight points listed as being the main context of the Report, six are concerned entirely with men now in clubs. The Committee has recognized and admitted this limitation of interest but it states that the only means by which to rectify the conditions against which it protests is a public discussion, since there is no definite union of any sort between all clubs. The matter of these six points is to put it briefly, the inter-relation of members of one club to those of another, and the Committee's endeavor has been to make these inter-relations more inclusive...
From any but the Coolidge lips these sentences might have fallen cynically. In themselves they mean nothing. But in their context they were warm praise from a cautious...