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...seems an unkind fate which will leave his chair vacant at our approaching twenty-fifth anniversary. We shall miss him increasingly as years pass...
...change is easy reckoning. The fate of most governments is decided upon their conduct of domestic affairs. Has Mr. Baldwin failed? According to many, and Conservatives are numbered among them, he has. These critics point out that the "P. M.'s" dilatory attitude during the general strike and coal strike cost the nation millions of pounds. More important, since the strike virtually nothing has been done to force the mine owners to reorganize their industry-the most badly needed reform in the country, by common consent...
Bellard, in The Woman, meant to be a financier. One day "he was torn by the look of a house on whose mean little porch near the street sat a shabby old man of 60, without a coat and reading a newspaper. The man's fate seemed terrible. . . . But the man looked up, and smiled at Bellard as brightly as if he himself had been young." Bellard, the ambitious Bellard, never becomes a financier but he finds happiness because he loves a woman. So when his children rail at his failure, he goes out on the porch of his scrubby...
Opposing arguers may say that such a situation is feasible in any examination and that fate plays as large a part in Divisional and other important inquisitions as in the November minor agonies. If so, and there is a great deal of cause to believe that such is not the case and that it is in the present sieges that the majority of blunders arise, there is no adequate reason for continuing the opportunities for error. Few men "find themselves" in the November hours--one presumes that that is the ultimate cause for their existence--and many are the souls...
...master of my fate...