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...John Harvard has come plodding through the centuries, one of his most consistent pitfalls has been the use of long words, with the result that no one has had the faintest idea what he was talking about. Just whose fault this was may be debated, but John should have known better...
...university graduates are unemployed it is serious, but it is certainly not the fault of the universities. It is only through education that we can ever get rid of unemployment. That he may not get a position is a chance a student will have to take. What is necessary is that each one realizes that a degree does not guarantee a job. Education never has been necessary to make money, but that in no way diminishes its value. To cut enrollments, even in law school, would not only be unfair to those who can and want to have such...
...Secretary Ickes drew a parallel between Andrew Jackson's struggle with the Bank of the United States and Franklin Roosevelt's struggle with "the hydra-headed economic monster of 1938," by which he meant monopoly. In Chicago, Attorney General Cummings said the same thing less picturesquely, found fault with existing anti-trust laws. Secretaries Wallace at Des Moines, Woodring at Denver and Roper at Columbus defended respectively farm control, domestic peace in view of foreign threats of war, and economic reform...
...Darwin and Thomas Huxley on equal terms. A stanch Presbyterian, he hated Episcopalians and Catholics, but thought the Congregationalists would win out in the end. The only thing he wholeheartedly admired was European art in general, nudes in particular. He studied representations of Venus all over Europe, found little fault with any of them, although he thought Rubens should have put more clothes on his wife before he painted...
...Love I'm After" has the virtue of being acted well, but also the fault of occasional banal dialogue. It is too much to expect, of course, that the scenario writers can make each line original as well as humorous; but just the same, you are conscious of the presence of well-wrinkled repartee. It doesn't make Bette Davis look prettier to hear her say: "I'll swallow my pride and go to him"; after the first laugh Leslie Howard seems a bit silly to say, when a knock on the door finds him in the arms...