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...full clutch of circumstance." Apparently he is groping after a line from William Ernest Henley, whom, however, he has evidently not read. I recommend him to study Pope's famous line about a little knowledge. Once more, he uses the term "Yanks," and this in a letter of fault-finding as to style of writing I The exhibition of general ignorance and boorishness in Mr. Dowse's unprovoked affront makes it clear that he himself has certainly not yet learned how to read or to write. The admirably condensed style of TIME is lost upon him. He picks...
...with performing an inhuman act you have spoken humane words. I do not wish that blood should be shed by my fault. I do not wish that civil war should break out in our country. "I surrender for the sake of France. I surrender for the memory of my boy, knowing full well that the men who are behind me could create bloodshed and trouble. I do not wish that others should feel the grief I have known. I surrender to the cry of Vive la France." From below M. le Préfet Jean Chiappe cried, "I thank...
...present arrangement of the academic year in Harvard University does undoubtedly place a great deal of emphasis upon examinations. This has been one of the periodic criticisms brought against our educational system, and if this is a fault it is to be feared that the new scheme will do little, if anything, to eliminate it. Independent reading in the future is to receive greater encouragement, but the very fact that it is independent wil make it more imperative that it be very carefully examined at the end of the reading period. A professor in charge of a course should, therefore...
...Surely not the editors, for a few men cannot hear every rumor that may be floating about the college, nor can they give the time to run about picking up facts here and there, as newspaper reporters do. The fault is to be charged to the entire body of our students, and it is only owing to indifference on their part that our local column is less interesting to the students of Harvard, than the the columns of the 'Yale News' and the 'Cornell Sun' to the men in those colleges...
...fault is not with journalism and in the larger sense the blame cannot be laid at Washington's door. In Washington an intimate knowledge of government and its many-sided problems can surely be acquired, but--sad to relate--it is not an intimate knowledge that gets most men elected to public office...