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...fixed content worthy of not and respect, we shall have cleared out minds of just so much rubbish. Gentlemen's clubs for the rich, and outrank schools for the profession and trades that is an immense gain in clarification. The business of the college will be to defend the existing order (if it will stay still long enough to be called "existing") and to prepare the youth to make an honest living in it. That is clear and admirable. There is the future of the "college". By deliberately working along these line, in the light of a definite purpose...
...defend Homer, however, is as absurd today as it would be for modern theologians to argue on the number of angels who can dance on the point of a needle. It is no longer a matter of defense or attack, it is a matter of choice. There are always some who are interested enough to prefer Horace to bridge or Sophocles to A. H. Woods, to whom Athens is as real as Broadway. Literature is safe in their hands. Meanwhile the rest of us rush on regardless of the delights they offer us, to look for happiness in State Street...
...journalists of Cambridge and with the future politicians whose forum is the Union, and with such rapidity that the processes of mental adjustment became almost painful. Any American who goes to England now for a year will necessarily learn much about his own country through being obliged to defend many of her actions...
...University debating team will argue against Princeton in Sanders Theatre tonight at 8 o'clock, upholding the negative of the question: "Resolved, that the United States, in joint action with England, France, and Japan, should recognize the Soviet Government of Russia." At the same time, another team will defend the opposite side of the question against Yale at New Haven...
...achieve very much by himself; just as in a war all men can not be generals; but unless that part of the community which has received great benefits from the United States and which should situations stands ready without the hope of reward, without the hope of glory, to defend its institutions intelligently and carefully against the insidious advances of their opponents in times of peace, we may be sure that they will fall. We who support the old principles of the American government have to oppose not so much the active opposition of the avowed enemies of the country...