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...seem to have so many fault-finding , letters sent you, that my father requests me to write you in regard to how much we appreciate TIME...
...cure is as bad as the disease not only because its machinery old and new is at fault; the entire principle of censorship is an out worn heritage of civilizations dead and gone. Its most persuasive ancient champion, Plato, fails to convince the reader of today that it is possible to legislate virtue into a populace. The medieval Inquisition tried in vain to keep religion in the hearts of men by the most cruel machinery of censorship the world has ever seen. Milton's "Areopagitica" gave the answer of a new civilization to this deadening philosophy...
Someone asks at once who put the cigarettes and the matches there. Admittedly, we are at fault, but what would you have us do put them in our pockets, or eat them? We might be requested to stop smoking, but I think an easier solution would be for the college to provide receptacles of some sort. Considering the number of cigarettes smoked and matches burned, it is really a tribute to the student body that the classroom buildings are accessible...
...Elkins is perhaps a little too convincing as the bad Mr. Tracey, but the fault is more than made up by the gentlemanly Mr. Nedell, who runs true to form and contrary to nature in his conduct when alone in a shooting lodge with a "seductive siren." Mr. Collier, as Keen Fitzpatrick, was even more like a reporter than most butlers are like butlers...
...inspiration was the English countryside rather than England. The main current of prose sweeps with the sweep of the times; its movement is, if not heroic, at least large; whereas verse slides, rebellious and cunning, against that heavier tide, like an eddy coiling back from a cataract. To find fault with contemporary lyricists because they make no attempt to reproduce on their melodious halmas, their tinkling clavichords, the surge and thunder of the Odyssey is an error in criticism. They do not belong to the period the less by being in reaction against its stridencies. Among the more capable halma...