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...love to God. As an aged novice in a Belgian monastery she forces herself to put up with disciplinary mortifications for her new love's sake. But her already wearied body cannot stand the strain. Sick, she is sent back to England. When her son. through no fault of his own, fails to meet her train, she waits for him on the station platform until she falls. After a brief agony in a hospital, Death pays her wages in full. Beginning, as in Hatter's Castle, with a cloud no bigger than a man's hand, Author Cronin by slow...
...situation in politics is the same to a large extent. If our politicians are grafters, if they are robbing their constituents, if they have made politics "dirty", it is entirely our fault if we allow them to continue in office. We get what we deserve in political service from our officials...
Opinions are fostered in college. Material is offered, debatable points tendered, and one is urged to develop his ideas. Error is no fault; stagnation is the fatality. College urges criticism, for through criticism alone are weaknesses seen. Not petty criticisms, not revolutionary criticism, but a careful selection of the fittest and best...
...camera companies from Avco, the corporation retained the Fairchild airplane factory at Farmingdale, L. I. and proceeded to build a new single-engine mail-&-passenger plane called the Pilgrim. This manufacturing operation, said Mr. Coburn's critics, was extravagant. The plane, they said, is already obsolete. Others found fault with the president's insistence on burdening himself with detailed responsibility (by which he threatened his health). It was, they said, inefficient administration...
Dean Stoddart's plan would therefore be the very death of these liberal colleges which he seeks to rescue. Its whole fault lies in that he goes too far. It has been amply demonstrated by the success of several progressive institutions that what is really needed is not so much a general smattering of all knowledge as an emphasis on one special field accompanied by an understanding of its relation to other important subjects. Opinions may differ as to the efficacy of Dean Stoddart's plan but common sense would certainly dictate that a system similar to that which...