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...Present college entrance requirements result in preparatory school curricula which leave the boy little time for self-education, for self-improvement of personal gifts and inclinations, for self-development of his own character by independent thought and experience. This is a fault to be corrected. Neither the college nor anyone has a right to monopolize the life of youth with its glorious possibilities, as if a certain amount of leisure were sure to be wasted or misapplied...
Both Department of Commerce and company officials found immediate fault of the pilot, in that...
...John T. Stricklin, oldtime politician. The other was Dentist R. E. Hawkins whom white-thatched, bespectacled Frank R. Birdsall, member of the State tax commission, editor & publisher of three-times-a-week Sentinel had supported in February's mayoralty election. Dentist Hawkins lost the election but through no fault of Editor Birdsall. The Sentinel had bitterly attacked Mayor Stricklin, alluding to cattle thieving, a charge for which the Mayor was indicted but exonerated last year. Among these three there was the kind of bad blood peculiar to a Mississippi political feud...
Says Poet Edith Sitwell of Poet Pope: "I may say, with the deepest humility, what Pope is reputed to have said of Dryden: 'Had I been born early enough, I should have known and loved him. . . . His principal fault was that he suffered from a constitutional inhibition against speaking the truth, save on occasions when, if we except the esthetic point of view, the truth would have been better left unspoken. But I have so often found both these faults in myself, that I do not dare to blame them...
...Legislature has stipulated that a station be established. We expect to carry out its mandate. Michigan is simply asserting a fundamental principle of American government and if the Commission gets in the way, that's the Commission's fault, not ours. The police power, reserved to the States, is not subject to any limitation. If the Radio Commission believes it more important that the ether be filled with jazz music and advertisements than that criminals be apprehended and punished, that's the Commission's privilege. We don't think that...