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...matter to him whether he opposes or supports any party or any group. His mind may be curious in its functionings, but it is honest, honest above all others in the Senate. That is the tacit and sometimes spoken opinion which his colleagues have formed of him and doubtless it is the most reliable. So they let him stand in a place apart and he does as he wills without criticism from his fellows in the Republican Party...
...have reductions made entirely in surtaxes and Federal estate taxes. But of course Congress will feel that something has to be given everybody. It is quite possible that there may be no reduction whatever in inheritance taxes against which the Progressives are violently opposed. But the Treasury will doubtless ask all that it wants and a bit more, and be grate ful for whatever concessions Congress grants...
...faults were grave and they were faults of both mood and tense. In his childhood, he had suffered an incurable injury to his back which doubtless accounted for much of his irascibility. On the other hand, he was often tactless to a degree, pompous in his bearing, quick to give and take offense and often almost boorish in his treatment of inferiors. His passion was imperialism and no toe, no matter to whom it belonged, escaped his heel if its owner got in the way of his policy. Few men were a match for him in withering invective; none surpassed...
...Darrow's harsh ideas concerning the method of education in American colleges doubtless contain a great deal of shrewd insight. What he recommends is practically a bodily transference of the English tutorial system to Harvard, but he falls to grasp the fact that such a change would be impractical and impossible here. If American preparatory schools measured up to the high standards of Eton and Rugby, then Mr. Darrow would be completely justified in his desire to see the practices of the great English universities speedily imported. But such an event would benefit only a small minority and would sound...
...public, and if he withholds public criticism at least until he is sure of his facts. And he should realize that, without inquiry or study, he cannot appreciate or understand the difficulties and complexities of a great University. In many instances, on such inquiry of study, he would doubtless withhold his criticism. And to rush into print, even into the print of the much too limited field of the Harvard Alumni Bulletin, without knowledge of his facts, is obviously, unfair and often harmful to the University. In the Committee on Relations with the Alumni, and the Secretary for Alumni Affairs...